Abstract

Questions are essential for teachers as a tool to communicate and evaluate their students’ comprehension in the classroom. The research was conducted to check and asses the most questions used, cognitive questions based on Bloom’s Taxonomy criteria and the implementation of questions. To check the frequency of questions, the researcher used checklist from some experts and Bloom’s Taxonomy. Therefore, the researcher employed descriptive qualitative study and the subjects of the research was two 8^th grade English teachers of SMPN 1 Banjarmasin. Research data was collected from observing the English interaction in the classroom. The findings of the research showed that display questions dominated from all of the questions used. The implementation of cognitive questions in the classrooms also did not fulfill the requirements to be in cognitive questions based Bloom’s Taxonomy. By all means, teacher can collaborate with other teachers and prepare the questions as long as it fits the characteristics of the students.

Keywords: Questioning Skills, Teacher’s questioning, Types of questions, Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy.