Teachers’ Questions in Reading Classes

 

 

Zuliati Rohmah

 

 

The present article discusses an English teacher’s questions in Reading classes at MAN Malang III. Types of questions, functions of teacher’s questions, question levels and the strategies applied by the teacher were put as the research problems. Non-participant observation was applied to collect the data with the researcher as the main instrument aided by field-notes and a tape-recorder. It was found that the distribution of the questions did not allow the students to talk longer and to think more analytically. Meanwhile, the strategies applied by the teacher helped the students to respond to the questions previously unanswered. The teacher is suggested to produce more open and referential question as well as inference and evaluation questions as to give more chances for the students to think aloud more.

 

 

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Rohmah, Z. (2002). Teachers’ questions in reading classes. TEFLIN Journal, 13(2), 163-174.

 

 

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