The Influence of Questioning Strategy on Students Achievement in Reading

Questioning is a strategy that actively involves learners in reading text by asking questions before, during, and after reading. This study aims to determine determined whether there is questioning strategy influences students' achievement in reading. To achieve the aim, the researcher used a quantitative method with an ex post facto design in this research. In collecting the data, the researcher used the purposive sampling technique based on the criterion that they have implemented the strategy in reading a text. The participants were 100 students of the Department of English Education batch 2019 academic year at UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh. The researcher used a questionnaire that consisted of 20 questions describing the characteristics of the questioning strategy. The data analysis in this study used univariate and bivariate analysis using the SPSS program. The finding of this research showed that the result of the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected because the SPSS calculation gets a p-value = .000. As is well known, the null hypothesis is rejected if the significance is less than 0.05, which means alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. Every additional 1% of students who use the questioning strategy will increase reading achievement by 1,008. The result explained that the questioning strategy influences students' reading achievement. It can be concluded from this research is students who have a questioning strategy have better reading achievement than those who have not.