relation between reading strategy awareness and reading comprehension. The study was conducted by using interviews as the instrument to see the
difference between students who have cognitive and metacognitive strategy with those who have not. Then it was confirmed with reading test scores.
Both groups show a variety of cognitive strategies, it was showed that poor readers, on the one hand, were less aware of cognitive strategies, and on the
other hand they reported a limited number of metacognitive strategies in comparison with good readers. In addition, both cognitive and
metacognitive strategy awareness give an effect to reading comprehension, the research findings show that cognitive and metacognitive strategy have a
contribution to students‟ reading accuracy and reading speed.
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Considering some previous studies above, the writer can conclude that the finding all of the previous study are all have the positive relationship. These can be
the guidance and prediction for the writer to conduct this research.
E. Conceptual Framework
Nowadays English is important to be mastered. English is used in some aspects of life such as education, entertainment, sports, politic and so on. Mastering English is a
must to make people engaged and knowledgeable in the modern life. People attempt to get exposure through reading, listening, writing, and speaking
Reading is a receptive skill that only can be mastered by reading a lot. However, students claim that reading is difficult
regard to the unfamiliarity of the topic discussed in the texts, complicated language used in the text, and lack of vocabulary
mastery. Those problems then lead to the students‟ unwillingness in reading. Because reading is very essential to make students engaged and knowledgeable, therefore it is
important to build students‟ willingness in reading.
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Reading comprehension strategy enables students to cope with reading difficulty. It makes students be easier in comprehending text by applying some kinds of reading
comprehension strategy. Questioning is one of reading comprehension strategies that keep students‟ curiosity in reading. By maintaining curiosity, it is hoped that students
will be more interested in reading. Questioning as a reading comprehension strategy makes students be more
interested in reading. Then it is also aimed to question themselves whether they have comprehended the text before, during, and after reading. In addition, questioning as a
reading comprehension strategy is aimed to helpful for teachers. By knowing how important a reading comprehension strategy is, teachers have to introduce reading
strategy in advance before teaching reading. In this case, Questioning could be
introduced by teachers as a strategy to better comprehend the texts.
F. The Theoretical Hypothesis
Based on the theories were explained above, it can be posed a theoretical hypothesis as follows:
1. The questioning strategy would be well applied for students to improve their reading achievement.
