Teachers’ Questioning Strategy: to Improve Students’ Motivation in English Classroom Learning Activities

The objective of this research is to find out the teachers’ questioning strategy in teaching English at SMPN 8 Banda Aceh and to know the improvement of students’ motivation in learning English through teachers’ questioning strategy. The approach of this research was qualitative one. The research took 2 subjects of participants; there were 3 English teachers and 10 students of SMPN 8 Banda Aceh. Data collection of this research was conducted through recording, observation and interview.The writer used narrative analysis to analyze the data. The result of data analysis showed that the teachers used questioning strategies by applying some types of question and performing the type questions in each season of teaching. Using probing and factual question in asking question were dominant. It depends on the material that teachers transferred to students. Otherwise, divergent and higher order question, it used only few time by teachers. The teacher also applied other strategies, it was repeated the questions, emphasis the question, translated into Bahasa Indonesia or mixed the questions, get closer to student, and gave reward to the students. The research finding also showed the positive effects from the use of questioning strategies which were applied by the teachers in English classroom learning activity and also improved students’ motivation in learning English. It means teachers’ questioning strategy are accepted by them, both teachers and students. The interpretation of data is teachers’ questioning strategy : To improve students motivation in English classroom learning activities are more effective in improving students’ motivation in learning English. Finally, based on the finding of the research the writer gave some suggestion. She hopes this research will be useful for improving of education in indonesia.