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What do you see in the beach?
√ S1 : Water
S2 : Sand S3 : Ship
Abbreviation: C = Clarifying
R = Reflective I = Interpretive
E = Evaluative According to the Table 3.2, right after wrote down the teacher‟s
questions in the teacher‟s questions column, the writer tried to classified the teacher‟s questions into eight types of questions. However, the writer just
found that there were four types of questions out of eight questions emerge in pre-reading activity in the classroom see Table 3.2.
5. Data Analysis Procedure
According to the writer‟s data piloting, there were four types of
questions emerged in the classroom; Clarifying C, Interpretive I, Reflective R, and Evaluative E. The four types of questions might be emerged
because the use of questions in pre-reading activity is not as much as the whole reading and they emerged depending on the topic that the students will
learn. Thus, the four types of questions are important to build the students‟
background knowledge. R
ight after wrote down the teacher‟s questions in the Teacher’s Questions column, the writer classified the questions into four by giving tick
√ in the Types of Teacher’s Questions column see Table 3.2. In addition, the writer also wrote the students answer of teacher‟s questions in the Notes
column see Table 3.2.
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D. Discussion and Finding
1. Types of Teacher Questions
Actually, the teache r‟s questions during pre-reading activity are identified
in the terms of Clarifying C, Interpretive I, Reflective R, and Evaluative E. Moreover, the questions will be analyzed starting from the 3
rd
Grade to 5
th
Grade. Then, the following table belo
w shows the distribution of teacher‟s questions used in pre-reading for each class see Table 4.1.
Type of Questions
Class
C I
R E
Total 3
rd
Grade
2 3
17 1
23
4
th
Grade 2
19 21
5
th
Grade
9 7
30 39
Total Questions 13
10 66
1 90
Percentage 14.44
11.11 73.33
1.11 100
Table 4.1 The distribution of teachers‟ questions used in each class
According to the Table 4.1, Clarifying, Interpretive, Reflective, and Evaluative questions are used in the pre-reading activity. In addition, the four
types of questions have different frequencies in use and it will be discussed further in the following explanation.
1a. Reflective Questions
Essentially, this type of question is mostly used by the teachers in the pre- reading activity in the 3
rd
, 4
th
, and 5
th
Grade. It is shown in the Table 4.1 that Reflective questions emerge 66 times out of 90 73.33 in the three classes.
The reason why Reflective questions are mostly used by the teacher in the classes because based on the writer‟s observation, the reading topic on each
