QUESTIONING SKILLS FOR TEACHER

Interaction
Collaborative exchange of thoughts, feelings, or ideas between two or more people.

Why use questions?

Give students opportunity to practice the language To initiate students interaction among themselves Give immediate feedbacks about students comprehensions Provide opportunity to find out what they think by hearing what they say ( selfdiscovery)

Types of questioning
Knowledge questions eliciting factual answers, testing, recall and recognition of information Common questions words: define, tell, list Comprehension questions-interpreting and extrapolating Application questions

 Comprehension questions-interpreting and extrapolating Common question words: State in your own words.

 Application questions- applying information heard or read to new situations Common question words: demonstrate how, illustrate how

 Inference questions- Forming conclusions that are not directly stated in the instructional questions Common question words: How, why, what, does..feels

 Analysis questions- breaking down into parts, relating parts into the whole Common question words: what is the relationship between? What conclusions?

 Synthesis questions- combining elements into a new patterns Common questions words: estimate, invent, choose, what would happen if?

 Evaluation questions- making a jugdement of good or bad, right or wrong according to some sets of criteria ions words: evaluate, decide which, which is more important?