Background of the Study

B. The Problem of the Study

Based on the background given, the problem was formulated as following: “Is there any effect of Using Questioning Strategies on students’ reading comprehension?”

C. The Scope of the Study

In this study, the forms of text are limited and deals only with narrative text. The level of reading comprehension focused on literal and inferential comprehension. So this study was focused on using Questioning Strategies on students’ reading comprehension in narrative text.

D. The Objective of the Study

In relation to the problem of the study, the objective of this study was to discover whether students’ reading comprehension is affected when they are taught by using Questioning Strategies.

E. The Significance of the Study

There are two benefits of this research, namely theoretically and practical benefits. The expected result of this study both theoretically and practically are: Theoretically: 1.This research theoretically expected to be significant for the students improving their ability in reading comprehension. 2. The result of this research can be used as the reference for those who want to conduct a research in English teaching-learning process. Practically: 1.This research will be useful for teachers of readers, in order to help them in teaching learning process, to make students more interested in learning English. 2. To help the writer to encourage and prepare herself to be a qualified and competent English teacher in the future. 3. To help the student enrich their knowledge on reading subject and encourage them to be active to do their reading. 49

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

A. Conclusion

Based on the data analysis, it is concluded that applying questioning strategies significantly affects the students’ reading comprehension in reading narrative text. It is seen from the data which had obtained in the post-test of experimental group were: the total score was 2236 and the mean score was 74.53, while the data in control group were: the total score was 1984 and the mean score was 66.13. Therefore, alternative hypothesis Ha is accepted and null hypothesis Ho is rejected. This is supported by the data analysis results in which the t- observed 4.29 is higher than the t-table 2.00 at the significant level of 0.05.

B. Suggestions

This study showed that reading comprehension by using Questioning strategies could improve students’ reading comprehension in narrative text. In relation above, some suggestions are offered as the following: 1. Questioning strategies is significantly effective, it is suggested that the teacher should apply this strategy in teaching process in order to improve students’ reading comprehension in narrative text. 2. It is suggested that the students by teacher’s help should apply questioning strategies as guidance to develop their ability in reading narrative text. 3. It is suggested that the further researcher in apply this strategy to other skill or text genre and to identify the weakness of the current research and make improvement of applying questioning strategies.