ABSTRACT

Rahman, Muhammad Adi. 2020. Teachers’ Questioning Strategies used by the teachers of the Tenth Grade at SMKN 4 Banjarmasin. Sarjana’s Thesis. English Language Education Study Program. Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Lambung Mangkurat University, Banjarmasin. The first advisor: Dr. Cayandrawati S, MA. The second advisor: Dini Noor Arini, M.Pd.

Keywords: Questioning Strategy, Type of Questioning Strategy, Implementation of Questioning Strategy, Teaching English

Questioning is one of the essential activities in the teaching and learning process, especially in teaching English. The type and the implementation of questions have to be designed and prepared carefully as a suitable strategy for them. This study aims to find out the questioning strategies the teachers used and the implementation in the classroom.

 The method of this research was descriptive qualitative. The subjects of this research were two English teachers who taught tenth graders in SMKN 4 Banjarmasin. The data were collected from observations, interviews, and audiovisual materials. The data were analyzed using conversation analysis.

 The results showed the questioning strategies that the teacher used are brief questions, structuring, focusing, redirecting, spreading, wait time, prompting, sorting, probing, classroom interaction, except the change of cognitive demand (questions that demand based on students mental process). The first teacher implemented the questioning strategies in pre- (questions related to background knowledge or games) and while- (questions related to the exercise) activity. Meanwhile, the second teacher implemented them in pre- (questions related to background knowledge or games), while- (questions related to the exercise), and post-activity (questions in a short review).

 It is suggested to the teacher to use various questioning strategies to stimulate, acknowledge, motivate students’ understanding that may improve the teaching and learning process regarding their needs in improving their teaching strategies. For further research, this could be a reference to explore more about questioning strategies, or to see it from the students’ perspectives.