THE QUESTION STRATEGY USED BY THE TEACHER IN TEACHING READING COMPREHENSION CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of the problem In the current era,english becomes the most important tool to communicate. The reason is english is usedby more than half population in the world. It makes English as the international language. Everyonein the world useit to communicate to gain and share information.Learning English is not easy. There are four skills and three components of the english language . Reading, Writting, Speaking and Liatening are skills while pronountiation, vocabulary, and grammar are components. Reading is an activity which is aimed at making sense of the printed word. The purpose of teaching reading is to have the students comprehend the text. The best of reading is comprehention. the overall goal is not to remember most ofthe specific details, but to have good grasp of the main idea and supporting ideas and to relate those main ideas to background knowlede