Research Methodology and Design

Based on the result of reliability test, the writer gained Cronbachs Alpha 0. 838. Hence the criteria of the data can be determined if the reliability coefficient r 1 0.6. 5 The result of reliability test was 0.838, or 0.838 0.6 therefore, it can be concluded that the questionnaire is reliable. The validity test was also tested the questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of 33 items. The items of questionnaire can be considered valid if r- value is higher than r- table. R table is 0.34. Hence, the result shows that 21 items are valid and 12 items are invalid. Then they were dropped from the questionnaire. In addition, the questionnaire has been distributed to the sample of the study at the first semester students of Department of English Education, UIN syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. The questionnaire consists of 20 items which describes the characteristics of questioning as a reading comprehension strategy. The questionnaire consists of three parts; before reading, during reading, and after reading. Due to the questionnaire is aimed to test the positive statement; therefore the answer can be scored in likert scale as follows: a. Absolutely agree = 5 b. Agree = 4 c. Neutral = 3 d. Disagree = 2 e. Absolutely disagree = 1. 6 Hence, after distributing the questionnaire to the sample of the study, the writer calculated the students’ entire questionnaire by using SPSS 16.0 to know the sum score of questioning as a reading strategy used by the students. Based on the likert scale above, it is possible the highest score of questionnaire gains 100. Due to the total of questionnaire are 20 items, therefore 20 X 5 the highest response of statement = 100. The gained 5 Sofian Siregar, Statistika Deskriptif untuk Penelitian. Jakarta: Rajawali Press, 2011. 6 Ibid., p. 106. questionnaire will be summed based on their response from score 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 in each item. 2. Documentation The writer gathered students’ reading achievement based on the final score of their reading 1 subject. The writer did not administer reading test to know the students’ achievement. The writer documented students’ reading achievement based on students’ reading achievement of Reading 1 subject which obtained from the lecture of Reading 1 subject. Then the students’ final score consists of students’ formative score including novel presentation, middle test score which is including of theory of Reading I, and final test score which is including of application of theory Reading I. Those scores then calculated to be their final score of Reading I subject.

D. Population and Sample

The population of the study is the first semester students of UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta which consist of three classes, namely IA, IB, and IC. The total number of population was 75 students. In selecting the sample, the writer used purposive sampling technique. This technique is used to determine the sample with certain consideration. 7 There were 40 students were taken from each class as the representative because the students almost have same ability in middle test of reading achievement. It can be seen from their middle test in reading 1 achievement.

E. Technique of Data Analysis

This research used software of SPSS 16.0 to analyze the data. After getting the data from questionnaire and documentation, furthermore it is important to analyze the data to examine the hypothesis. This research used linear regression to investigate between the influence of q uestioning strategy and students’ achievement in reading. Hence, linear regression is regression analysis which is 7 Sugiyono, Metode Penelitian , Pendidikan,Pendekatan Kuantitatif, Kualitatif, dan RD, Alfabeta Bandung, 2013, p. 85.