TYPES OF TEACHER’S QUESTIONS AND STUDENTS’ RESPONSES IN DEVELOPING COMMUNICATIVE CLASSROOM INTERACTION: A CASE STUDY OF QUESTIONING IN SMKN 1 LEMBAR

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to investigate the types of teachers questions, the function of questions, teacher questioning strategies and students responses in classroom activities. This study was utilized on reason that almost all classroom interaction during teaching learning process are built by questionning and it plays important roles to provide comprehensible inputs, to facilitate interaction, and to triger students’ output. This study was conducted at a Vocational School in Lombok Barat with two teachers  and 33 students as the participants. Classroom observation, video recording and interview were used as instruments to gather the necessary data. The research findings showed that there were several types of teacher question possed in the process of teaching learning, the types of students’ verbal responses, and by using the suitable modification strategies, the students will be helpful to elicit their response. The discrepancy of using types of questions was caused by the material and approach of teaching. The use of authentic material and classroom discussion technique facilitates the teachers to use referential questions. this lead the students to provide more elaborative responses, more interaction happened and more comprehensible inputs could be provided. This study recommended that questions must be emphasised in classroom activities and that questioning strategies should be intensively given during teacher preparation.

Keywords: Teacher’s Questions, Students’ Responses, Communicative Interraction