Teachers’ Questioning Strategies in EFL Classroom at Darul Istiqamah Islamic Senior High School in Maros

Sitti Asriani; Kisman Salija; Nurdin Noni

Teachers’ Questioning Strategies in EFL Classroom at Darul Istiqamah Islamic Senior High School in Maros

Sitti Asriani^(1*), Kisman Salija⁽²⁾, Nurdin Noni⁽³⁾,

(1) Universitas Negeri Makassar
(2) Universitas Negeri Makassar
(3) Universitas Negeri Makassar
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract

The aims of this research were to find out types of questioning strategies used by EFL teachers, describe reasons of the teachers in using questioning strategies, and describe students' perceptions towards questioning strategies used by teachers in the classroom. The researcher applied case study design. The subjects of the research were selected through purposive sampling technique. The researcher used instruments such as observation, audio recording, and interview. The findings showed that the teachers applied four questioning strategies, namely prompting, probing, repeating, and redirecting for several reason as follow. (1) Prompting strategy to stimulate students' process of thinking, activate students background knowledge and provide students with opportunities to give correct responses, (2) Probing strategy to encourage students to provide more information, encourage students to think at higher levels and evaluate students understanding, (3) Repeating strategy to activate the class and to break the silence, make sure each student is listening and understands the question, give them time to think and maintain the students attention, (4) Redirecting strategy to establish a sense of cooperation among students, the inability of the initial student the answer the question, prevent students from being embarrassed, and enhance students' performances,

Keywords

Teachers’ Questioning; Question Strategies; EFL

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