TEACHERS’ QUESTIONING STRATEGIES DURING THE ENGLISH CLASSROOM INTERACTION AT SMAN 2 PONOROGO

Abstract

This study analyzed the teachers’ questioning strategies during the English classroom interaction at SMAN 2 Ponorogo. The importance of this research aimed to find out the types of questions and the questioning strategies, and describe the reasons of the teachers in using their questioning strategies. This research applied a qualitative study that focused on descriptive analysis. It used observation and interview to collect the data. The result showed that there were 79 of types of question included managerial, rhetorical, closed, and open question used by the English teachers. Besides, there were 207 of types of questioning strategies such as reinforcement, probing, adjust/refocus, simply repeated, rephrased, wait-time, and Bahasa. The last, the reason of the teachers used questioning strategies during the English classroom interaction was to check the students’ comprehension and then guide the students to be more deeply in understanding the material.