THE TYPES OF QUESTIONS USED BY THE TEACHERS IN READING CLASS : A Case Study at MTs N Model Samarinda.

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LIST OF TABLES

Table 2.1 Level of Comprehension of Barrett’s Taxonomy ……… 47 Table 3.1 Teacher Profile ……….. 61 Table 3.2 Data Categorization ……… 67 Table 4.1 Number and Percentage of Question levels based on

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LIST OF FIGURES

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LIST OF APPENDICES

Appendix 1 : The Teachers’ Transcriptions ……….………. 130

Appendix 2 : The Analysis of Teacher A’s Questions ………... 156

Appendix 3 : The Analysis of Teacher B’s Questions ………... 168

Appendix 4 : The Analysis of Teacher C’s Questions ………. 179

Appendix 5 : The analysis of Teacher A’s Questioning Strategies ……….. 191

Appendix 6 : The analysis of Teachers B’s Questioning Strategies ……….. 190

Appendix 7 : The analysis of Teachers C’s Questioning Strategies ……….. 206

Appendix 9 : The Interview Transcription ..……….. 213

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1 CHAPTER I

INRTODUCTION

This chapter discusses the background of the study, the statement of the

problem, the purposes of the study, the methodology, and the significance of the study.

The organization of the study and the definition of key terms is also illustrated in this

chapter.

1.1 Background of The Study

The English teaching policy in Indonesia has undergone significant changes in

the last fifteen years. There have been reformation efforts in educational world,

including reformation of the national curriculum. Since then the focus of the English

language teaching is not only dominated on the teaching English for High School

students but also it has been covered to the Elementary up to University level. It means

that, all of Indonesian students have the great chance to access English nowadays.

The above phenomenon is strongly positive and vital in increasing the

educational quality because English functions not only as a language for science, and

technology, but also as a means of communication in economy and trade, multilateral

relationship, as well as career growth (Jafar, 2008:2). Meanwhile, ninety percents of all

books from elementary libraries at school to university libraries are written in English

(Sunggingwati, 2001:3). Therefore, the ability to grasp and extract that all information

depends largely on the student’s proficiency on reading skill. In other words, reading

skill plays an important role for the students who need to comprehend the whole

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Since reading is a very important skill for the students, great attention also should be

paid to the teaching of reading, particularly to the teachers’ role in reading activities. It is

due to the fact that a teacher has an important role in the teaching reading as what

Sibarani (2001:2) states that teacher plays a very important role in the classroom

teaching. A teacher is the most important person in the reading class deciding the kind

of experience the children should have. More explicitly, Bond and Dykstra (1990, cited

in Chandra 2005:4) confirm that teacher is a variable underlying students success in

learning to read. It is an obligation for the teachers to stimulate students’ interest in

reading, they must help the students to see that reading is a valuable skill for them. The

students are able, of course, to do learning themselves, but the teacher has a major

effect in reading activity, and can create materials appropriately in a sequence of

increasing difficulty which leads to the students’ improvement in reading skill. As what

Eskey (1983:4) states that to bring students and to give appropriate materials

altogether are very large parts of the reading teacher’s job. Meanwhile, the teacher

also must provide practice and introduce useful reading strategies, such as: SQ3R,

scanning, skimming, inferential reading, and QAR (QuestionAnswer Relationship)

questions, reciprocal teaching (http://fys.nd.edu/reading_learning.htm), in which these can be great ways for the teacher to consider what they will doin their classes to facilitate

overall comprehension in reading (Anderson, 1999:39).

Regarding the reading strategies, questioning is one of the type commonly used

by the English teachers in their reading EFL classes. In line with this, Carriane (1994)

found out that teachers’ questions vary from 30 to 120 questions per hour. While, Borich

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reacting to questioning. Therefore, by conducting some questioning activities, it is

expected to stimulate students’ asking questioning skill, to promote their thoughts and

to understand the ideas, to be able to diagnoze and recall information, and to activate

student’s knowledge background (Heilman and Blair, 1981:251). Moreover, based on

the previous findings conducted by Talebinezand (2003:44) and Long and Sato (1983:4)

that questions and answers are very common activities if they are exploited

appropriately, they can help students and teachers to judge the usefulness of what they

are doing. In line with this, Scales and Shen (2004:3) furthermore, state that questions

play a central role in reading comprehension instruction because they can be used to

develop concepts, build background, clarify reasoning process, and even to lead the

students to the higher level of thinking. Therefore, posing questioning can be a useful

tool for a skillful teacher to serve numerous useful learning purposes and encourage

students’ level of thinking.

Since the teachers’ questions quality posed to the students at reading activity is

important, this present study is therefore intended to investigate the types of questions

at reading activity in MTs N Model Samarinda.

1.2 Statements of The Problem

Related to the background of the study mentioned above, the researcher

conducts a study concerning the reading comprehension questions used by the

teachers at Mts N Model Samarinda, and the problems are formulated as follows:

1. What types of questions do teachers ask during the process of teaching

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2. What questioning strategies do teachers use during the process of teaching

reading?

3. What are the influence of question types and questioning strategies used by

teachers in the class interaction during the process of teaching reading?

1.3 Purposes of The Study

In line with the research problems above, this study attempts to describe the

process of reading comprehension questions used by the teachers at Mts N Model

Samarinda. To be more specific, the purposes of the study are:

1. to observe types of questions used by the teachers during the process of

teaching reading?

2. to identify questioning strategies used by the teachers during the process of

teaching reading?

3. to know the influence of question types and questioning strategies used by

teachers on class interaction during the process of teaching reading?

1.4 Methodology

In accordance with the problems of the study stated above, this study applies a

descriptive method. The main focus of this study is to observe or to find out the

teachers’ questions used in reading activities at Mts N Model Samarinda. In this study,

the researcher took three teachers purposively to be oberved as samples, then the

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on the level of comprehension and some questioning theories related to this study can

be covered through reading activities.

The data collection used in this study are the classroom observation and

interview. In taking the data, the researcher used an observational qualitative design to

know in details the process of the teachers’ questions given to the students during the

reading activities. The data taken from the teachers’ questions were then analyzed by

using types of level comprehensions and other theories supporting this study.

Methodology is further elaborated in Chapter III.

1.5 Significance of The Study

The findings of this investigation illustrate types of questions and questions

strategies used by the teachers to the students in reading activities. Overall findings are

expected to give benefit to the teachers, mainly to the teacher at Mts N Model

Samarinda, other teachers at different level of school grades, and other researchers

who will take a study on the similar field, particularly how to pose or frame the types of

questions to the students in teaching reading comprehension.

1.6 Definition of the Key Terms

To avoid misinterpretation of the terms used in this study, the definition of the

key terms are provided as follows:

Reading class : a room students where learning reading skills in the classroom in

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Types of teachers’ questions: the questions given to the students that consists of : (a).

Literal, (b) reorganization, (c). Inferential, (d). Evaluation, (e). Appreciation (Barrett,

1968, cited in Clymer, 1968).

1.7 Organization of the Thesis

The thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter one illustrates the background of

the study, the statements of the problems, the purposes of the study, reserach

methodology, the significance of the study, and the definition of the key terms.

Chapter Two elaborates the review of related literatures about reading

comprehension, types of questions, questioning strategies, and other supporting

theories underpinning this thesis.

Chapter Three provides the methodology consists of research design, research

site and participant, data collection methods, and data analysis method.

Chapter Four discusses research findings in connecting to teachers’ questions

given to the students and question strategies used in reading activities, and the

influences of the types of questions and questioning strategies in questioning

interaction.

Chapter Five covers some important points of the findings, and the significances

which are related to the quality of teachers’ questions posed to the students, mainly to

the teachers at MTs N Model Samarinda. The suggestions are also given to the other

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7 1.8 Concluding Remarks

This chapter has elaborated the background of the study, the statements of

problem, the purposes of the study, methodology, significance of the study, the

clarification of key terms, and organization of the thesis. In chapter two elaborates in

details the literature review of related theories underpinning the types of teachers’

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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This chapter highlightes some important points of research methodology. The

illustration of data gathered from the classroom observation is then discussed in

detalis in this part. It consitsted of research design, research site and subjects,

research instrument, data of collection procedure, data analyzes, and concluding

remarks.

3.1 Research Design

As stated in the first chapter that the objectives of this study are to investigate the

ways the teacher posed the questions types in reading class. To achieve those

objectives, it is necessary to apply a suitable research design. In this study, the

researcher used a descriptive research design to describe the phenomena occurred at

the certain setting, e.g. a student, a class, a school, these are able to collect of very

extensive data to produce understanding of the entity being studied (Fraeken-Wallen

1990:313). By doing this design, it is also to portray a comprehensive understanding of

what the teacher posed or elicited the questions to the students in reading activities at

MTs N Model Samarinda.

This study also belongs to an observational case study of a qualitative research.

In this case, it concentrates on one setting and one particular person and event

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the data is observation. The focus of observation is on the way the teacher distributed

and elicited types of question to the students in reading activities.

Generally, in an observational case study, before conducting the actual

observation. It can firstly be conducted by pre–observation phase. This is in line with

Alwasilah’s view (2002:211) that observation is often followed by informal observation

and impresionistic as a warming up before conducting a real observation. A preliminary

research was done where for several weeks by observing the whole process of

teaching – learning activities naturally, including the classroom condition, facilities, and

others.

During the preliminary activities, the researcher then stated some research

questions were to design research instruments. Note taking was used as an additional

point to note down everything that appeared at the time of the teacher reciting the

questions to the students. Then the last phase, the data gathered were categorized and

interpreted to get the drawing conclusion.

3.2 Research Site and Participants

Research was conducted at MTs N Model Samarinda, in East Kalimantan. The

school is located on Jln. Harmonika No. 100, Samarinda. The school has become one

of the most favourite schools in Samarinda, particularly for Islamic Junior High Level.

There are several reasons deciding that school to be the setting of this study. Firstly,

MTs N Model is the only state MTs in Samarinda which is recognized as the most

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the researcher. This school has also a good quality of education, mainly, there are

some “kelas unggulan” available there. More explicitly, in teaching learning objectives,

particularly, for the second grade, the syllabus indicators mention that in terms of

teaching reading, the students are expected to guess meaning or to get information

from the reading text explicitly or implicitly. Based on the reason, it is then considered

to take this school as the site of the study. Then, through discussing between the vice

head master of curriculum division, the teachers and the researcher, then the three

classes chosen was the second-grade.

Regarding the subject observed, the rich data was needed to be able to figure out

how the real condition happened at this classroom. The data gathered was the types of

teachers’ questions posed to, how effective the questions applied in teaching reading

activities, and the influences would appear when the teachers distribute the questions

to the students. For this reason, Fraenkel and Wallen (1994: 313, Merriam,1998)

suggest that in a case study allows an investigation to retain the holistic and meaningful

characteristic of real life events.

Meanwhile, participants in this study were the English teachers who have been

teaching at the school for several years, three of them were taken from the second

classess. Taking the participants to be observed-subjects was done by using the

purposive sampling design (Alwasilah,2003;145). All of them have their own

experiences in teaching English. They are non – native speakers but have completed

their study at college of education, majoring English teacher training. Take, teacher A,

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since 1993 and has been teaching English at MTs since 1996. Her career of teaching

English has been started few senior high schools in other town before being a

fully-public servant at Mts N Model Samarinda. For more complete profile of teachers

respectively, it can be seen at the following Table. 3.1:

Table 3.1. Teachers’ Profile

No Participant Graduation Teaching

experiences

Before collecting the data, the researcher conducted a preliminary research to

get the information regarding: the types of questions, the questioning strategies, and the

influence of these questioning strategies toward students. In this study, the researcher

used two kind of instruments namely: classroom observation and interview. Afterwards,

the researcher went to the field to collect the data by using these instruments in order to

get the rich data needed. Below are the techniques used in obtaining data which are

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61 3.4.1 Classroom Observation

As stated earlier, the focus of this study was observational case study, which

aims to gather the rich data that can be collected through the observation in the

classroom. As Bogdan &Biklen (1998:55) state that a researcher simply observes and

records naturally in the classroom in which it is purposely to describe the setting that

was observed, that took place in that setting, the people who participated in those

activities, and the meanings of what was observed from the perspective of those

observed. Therefore, toward an overall observation, several activities was done by the

teachers, including the teaching and learning activities when s/he posed and elicited

the questions and how the questioning interaction occurred among the teacher and the

students. Taking the data were almost conducted in two months, started at the

beginning on November 2008 up to February 2009. Classroom observations then were

conducted for 9 meetings. Three meetings were conducted by the teachers in their

teaching learning activities. Activities that were conducted during the observation will be

presented below:

3.4.1.1 Non Participant Observation

In conducting this observation, the researcher was a non–participant observer in

the teaching– learning activities. She came into the classroom to observe the classroom

activities for several days, before data collection and while data collection. The

researcher believes that it was an efficient way for her to get into the class. Before the

real observation was conducted, this was done for the students to be familiar with the

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their ideas freely although the researcher was in the class. During the observation

process, there was no interaction happened between researcher, teacher and pupils.

She paid much attention to the process of teacher-students activities in distributing and

eliciting questions in classroom interaction.

Taking a seat at the back is also a way to see the interaction between teacher

and students when the teacher distributes those questions. She also took a note for

several things; recording teacher- students verbal interction, noting down what the

teacher’s expression, impression or ideas that figured out the teacher’s performance,

and talling the questions distributed on the students seating-chart. By taking a note, it is

aimed to record the data of the teacher’s nonverbal behavior and expression, such as;

nodding, raising eyebrow, smiling, or even giving appreciation to the students.

3.4.1.2. Seating- Arrangement

To collect the data of teacher distributing questions to the students, the

researcher was equipped with the seating chart. A seating chart is a map of students’

position in the classroom when the data were being taken (see appendix. 9). According

to Nunan (1989:94, Leng,1982), in particular seating chart will show the number and

direction of questions by the teacher, whether these were directed to the class

generally or specifically individuals, and learners response. Therefore, the researcher

used the seating chart to record the questions posed by the teacher. In this seating

chart, the researcher tallied the position of a student who posed the questions or who

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The focus of this observation was the way of the teacherposed questions to the

students. A cassette recorder was used to help the researcher to record all activities

happened in the classroom. In the recording process, it recorded utterances verbally

instructed by the teacher within interaction in the classroom. In other words, this study

was equipped with tape recorder as one of the main techniques used, by utilizing the

recorder, the obtained data would be more accurate. The recorded utterances in the

class interaction particularly were considered as a raw data of this study. Those raw

data were then transcribed, to seek types, strategies, and influences of these types of

the questions provided for the students to answer the research problem. There were

three classes of the second grades to be an observed – settings, and three meetings

were recorded by the teachers respectively.

3.4.2. Interview

The second instrument is interview. Interview was conducted after the process

of recording. It was used with the reason that the teachers would give the questions in

different way, so this instrument was used to gain in-depth information about the

teachers’ considerations or reason in giving or reciting the certain question items in

classroom activities The semi- structure interview was used in this study because its

questions have no choice from which the interviewee selects the answers (McMillan &

Schumacher, 1990:176). Thus, the interviewee would feel free to answer the interview

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In this phase, the researcher has collected the data needed, then it was soon

analyzed in details. Bogdan and Biklen (1998:159) state that the more data you have on

a given topic, setting, or objects, the easier it will be thought deeply when you attempt

the final analysis. Morever, they confirmed that analyzing data, which involved working

data, organizing them, breaking them into manageable units, synthesizing them,

searching for patterns, discovering what is important and what it is to be learned,

deciding what you will tell others, and need to be done immediately. All collected data

that was taken by observation form constitute the verbal transcription of the teacher’s

utterances in giving questions to the students in the classroom. They consisted of

teachers’ types questions based on Barrett’s Taxonomy and questioning strategies

based on Jacobsen and Eggen’s theories. The data will then be broken down into their

pattern to see the appropriateness between the patterns and questions types.

Partinent with the data collection method and the data needed to be analyzed

further, Miles and Huberman (1994:9, see also,Maleong, 2002) point out that the

procedure of data analysis in this study was conducted into several steps, namely: a)

data collection, b) data reduction, c) data display, d) conclusion drawing.

Data collection on the observation process was the teacher’s verbal transcription,

that was recorded on the tape recorder. The data reduction was carried out by sorting

the relevant data from the transcribed utterances that contains the questions of the

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Previously to the reduction of data needed, the recorded data was prior

transcribed on the observation form, in order to make the whole process of data

analysis easier. After the transcribed data was written down then sorted until those of

teacher’s questions types were left, data were, then, codified and classified into the

theories underpinning in this study. Meanwhile, the data were codified in accordance

with determined codes. The example of code is TC/4/11/08, represented by TC=

teacher C, while, 4/11/08 indicated the time recorded being taken, while 4/11/08

explained, date, month, and year respectively. Finally, the step was conclusion drawing

to be carried out on the basis of data reduction and data display.

Moreover, in terms of types of question sorted before, each question is

categorized based on the cognitive level of teacher’s questions of Barrett’s Taxonomy

(Barrett, 1968, cited in Clymer,1968) and based on the reference theories adopted in

this study. The second steps of this analysis, the selected data were classified based on

the reference to questioning strategies consisting of redirection, prompting, and probing

(Jacobsen, at.al,1982,142). The next step is to investigate the influences of the type of

questions in classroom interaction. Then, the last step is to calculate the frequency and

percentage of question items respectively. After the whole result of percentage of

question items classified respectively, the research problems then were answered. The

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Types of Questions 1. Literal

2. Reorganization

The validity of data from observation was taken through member checking. After

the researcher categorized the transcription of teachers’ questions and showed to the

participants, the researcher asked for their comments whether these data are

appropriate in terms of their ways of giving questions to the students in teaching

reading process. The way is to verify the accurateness of data obtained and minimize

bias happened during classroom observation when they are being observed. In line

with this, Maxwell (1996:88) conforms that this is done to reduce a risk of the limitation

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Having well-presented the data obtained which was designed in this study, is a

way to figure out of what actual data look. A research design used in this study was a

qualitative research design that applied a observational case study as a method that

was used to process the data needed. The data collection of this study was

observation. These data then, were broken down to their categorization based on the

theories suggested in this study. In order to verify the data obtained and have a fuller

understanding of the phenomenon happened at the setting subject, member checking

is used to clarify the validity of the data obtained. More details and more comprehensive

data analyses, was illustrated further in Chapter Four. The whole methodology is

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Figures 3.1 Research Methodology

BACKGROUND

Theory Problems Fact

Types of Questions, Questioning Strategies, and Its Influence toward the Students

Research Questions

Validity Data Collection Observation

& interview

Data Analysis, Findings, & Discussions

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CHAPTER V

CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

This previous chapter presents the findings and discussions of the presents

study on the type of questions instructed by the teachers in teaching reading class at

Mts N Model Samarinda. Based on the findings, in the present chapter, several

conclusions are drawn and number of suggestions are put forward. The conclusion

deals with the types of questions used by the teachers is based on Barrett taxonomy,

type of questioning strategies used by the teachers is based on Jacobsen, at.al

(1989:176), and the influence of question types used by teachers toward class

interaction in teaching reading process. Then, the suggestions are drawn based on the

research conclusions.

5.1 Conclusions

Based on the results of the study and the discussion of the findings, It is

concluded that generally, the three teachers applied well the types of questions in

their class respectively. The first, based on Barrett’s Taxonomy as a basis in this study,

it is identified that all teachers applied the question level of literal, reorganization,

inferential, and evaluation of comprehension questions. However, appreciation level of

comprehension is difficult to be constructed by the teachers. The reason underlying of

this condition is related to the differences in teaching experiences and self

development motivation among the teachers. These type of questions can be a very

useful way to motivate the students to involve in the lesson, and motivate the students

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The second, in terms of question strategies based on Jacobsen,at.al (1989:176),

it is identified that all teachers used redirection more than other two strategies. The

reason underpinning this condition is related to its functions. Firstly, redirection is able

to encourage the students’ motivation at the beginning and during the phase of reading

activities. Secondly, redirection is also able to give information whether the students

comprehend the text presented or not. Actually the second and the third parts, hence,

prompting and probing are considered as supporting ways to make the students

comprehending more the text well, so that they would be able to engaged the students

better in improving their ability in acquiring the questions developed by the teachers.

The third, questioning and answering interaction in the classroom, the teachers

actually were better in eliciting the questions to the students. Commonly, they pose the

questions either based on the questions presented or explicitly stated in the text or

questions made by themselves. But, in some meetings, they make the same questions,

particularly for the first and the second teachers. Those questions are able to make

the student active, however, the types of questions or questioning strategies used at

each meetings do not make students’ improvement regarding their responses. More

or less, questions used are mainly based on the text given. But, different way is

conducted by the other teacher, the teacher seems successful to make his class more

active and interacted well. The teacher enables to develop the types of questions and

the students’ improvement regarding the form of questions.

The fourth, at very beginning a question is posed by the teachers, it would be

set or framed purposefully to meet the text discussed further. The aim is to make the

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enthusiastic to be involved in their class interaction. Moreover, a teacher should also

be able to process a text effectively and comprehensively. Because a variety of

types of texts used by the teachers would make significantly effect in reading

instruction, including on questioning process. So that, some of the types of questions

used by the teachers could produce the quality of questions and the quality of students’

response, as well.

5.2 Suggestions

This part presents some suggestions based on the findings and the conclusions.

The suggestions are devoted to the teachers and future researchers who are interested

in conducting a similar research. More details are as follows:

Firstly, it would be wise if the teacher realizes that questioning is a means to

help students develop and improve their reading comprehension in the classroom

interactions. Through this study, using cognitive level of Barrett’s Taxonomy as a

basis questions analyzes would be an appropriate way to eliminate the types of

questions adopted by the teachers. Moreover, Barrett’s Taxonomy is also effective in

promoting students’ reading question ability. Therefore, it is recommended for the

teachers to study more about asking questions in order to develop their teaching

competence.

Secondly, in terms of question strategies, the teacher should also use the

combination of those strategies, for example, prompting and probing. Those ways are

to elicit further output from the learners. Mainly, for probing, it is expected that the

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determines whether the students comprehend the text or not. Probing also encourages

the students to produce more output.

Thirdly, the teachers must be sure that questioning can make the students

develop and evaluate their level of thinking. The teachers are expected to train the

students on how to respond toward those questions by encouraging and giving them

some opportunities to practice questionings rather than to establish their own questions

(based on literal, reorganization, inferential, evaluative , and appreciation) in the reading

activities. To alleviate boredom and develop the students’ own strategy, the teacher are

expected to develop various types of questions and their questioning skills. The

teachers would be more stressed on the importance of the form of questions by

maintaining the classroom interactions effectively. By posing questions to the whole

class and individual student, the teacher can involve all the students in language

learning.

Fourthly, at the time, questions were given by the teachers seemed not to be

done purposefully. Basically, each teacher provided less than 3 seconds to 5 seconds

for waiting the students’ response before s/he turns or changes to other questions.

The waiting time of students’ responses are associated with their improvement or

outcomes, and their creativity in responding the teachers’ questions. In short, based on

their experience, longer time given does not make succeed in taking a time of any

students to speak up or to elicit response. But since, the three teachers are graduated

from English education program, they are supposed to be more creative to develop

teacher made-questions, these are able to engage the students’ response or feedback

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Fifthly, since this study is focused only on the three English teachers of junior

high school, so the findings, generally, are not much pictured the real questioning

interaction in reading activities, for future detailed and comprehensive study, therefore,

it is expected to conduct the study with different focuses and design. Moreover, by

taking larger samples is expected to get more generalization which can be expanded to

reading comprehension questions applied at elementary school or senior high school.

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Since the intended objects are to allow students to interact more frequently, questions

should aim at providing more opportunities and motivation for students to interact in the

target language. Teachers should try to improve their questioning skills through

classroom practice and by observing students’ reactions to the questions. Meanwhile,

teacher must adjust the student’s language output by giving comments on their answers

and by helping them to produce answers of high quality. The four types of questions

should be employed more properly and according to students’ response, especially

where students may display their high-level of thinking.

The study provides some implication for future teacher questioning. First, more effective

teacher questioning should be introduced according to specific language learning

environment. The questions asked must base on the cognitive level of the learners, the

purpose of the lessons, the learning materials used and so on. The teacher may

pre-design the questions that will be asked in the class, to make the questions more

relevant and meaningful, at the same time provide more chances for both the

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learners’ cognitive level should be encouraged. Those that require the higher level of

thinking should.

4. Conclusion Miao.

In both the teachers’ lessons, a lot of time has been spent on closed questions when it

may be better to spend on open or process questions.

5. Implication for Language Teaching

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also be welcomed so that learners can be exposed to more language input. Second, in

SLL context, the teacher should try to get students more engaged in the second

language learning through effective teacher questioning. Since the intended objects are

to allow students to interact more frequently, questions should aim at providing

more opportunities and motivation for students to interact in the target language.

Teachers should try to improve their questioning skills through classroom practice and

by observing students’ reactions to the questions. Meanwhile, teacher must adjust the

student’s language output by giving comments on their answers and by helping them to

produce answers of high quality. The four types of questions should be employed more

properly and according to students’ response, especially where students may display

their high-level of thinking.

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Appendix. 8. The Detailed-distribution of Teachers’ Types Questions

no Level of comprehension The

teachers

TA TB TC

1 Literal 1 51 50 50

Literal 2 6 2 14

Literal 3

Literal 4

Literal 5 9 4 7

Literal 6

TOTAL 66 56 64

2 Reorganisation1 14 2 7

Reorganisation2

Reorganisation3

Reorganisation4

TOTAL 14 2 7

3 Inferential1 36 55 46

Inferential2 5

Inferential3

Inferential4

Inferential5 2 15 9

Inferential6

Inferential7

Inferential8

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no Level of comprehension The

teachers

TA TB TC

3 Evaluation1 12 20 17

Evaluation2

Evaluation3

Evaluation4

TOTAL 12 20 17

4 Appreciation1

Appreciation2

Appreciation3

Appreciation4

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