81 Te Use of Questioning Strategy to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension Ana Rizqi Amalia & Yeni Mardiyana Devanti Universitas Muhammadiyah Jember (yenidevanti@gmail.com) Abstract Tis research is a classroom action research which was conducted at SMA Muhammadiyah Jember. It is aimed at improving students’ reading comprehension by the use of questioning technique. Te second grade students were taken as the subjects of the research. Tey are all thirty-two students. Te data were collected from in-depth-interview during the process of teaching and learning and test which was given in the end of the process. In the frst cycle, there were twenty students (62.5%) who gain the criteria of success. Meanwhile, in the second cycle, twenty-six students (81.25%) gain the target score. Tis showed that the students were successful in reading comprehension class. Te conclusion of the study is that the use of Questioning Strategy can improve the second grade students’ reading comprehension of SMA Muhammadiyah 2 Jember. Keywords: reading comprehension, questioning strategy. Reading is the act of interpreting printed or written words and requires understanding or comprehension of the meaning of the reading text. Trough reading we can get the messages that the writer has expressed. Harmer (1998, p. 68) states, “there are many reasons why getting students to read English texts is an important part of the teacher’s job. In the frst place many students want to be able to read text in English either for their careers, for study purpose or simply for pleasure”. Tenkersley (2003, p. 90) states that good readers have a purpose for reading and use their experiences and background knowledge to make sense of the text. Making connections is the key to comprehension. Comprehension means making sense of words, connecting ideas between texts and prior knowledge, constructing and negotiating meaning in discussions with others. Comprehending the texts refers to understanding their context, not only comprehending words, but also paragraphs and text. Readers read the text to get opinions or ideas that are related to the text and to understand what it tells about. It means reading is a process to understand the content of and to get information from the reading text. In fact, there are often some phenomena in many schools, in which many students fnd difculties in comprehending the text. Te second grade students’ of SMA Muhammadiyah Jember, had a difculty in comprehending a text occurred might be caused by inappropriate strategies and activities conducted in the teaching of reading comprehension. Te teachers only gave the texts and exercise in the book without giving any explanations about the text and how to answer the question. Ten, the students read and answer the question which is given by the teacher. Most of students did not understand