40 a pediatrician in Indonesian language? Some other questions were put forth to
check students’ knowledge of certain professions dealing with health as in, Whatkinds of problems does a pediatrician deal with? Other questions were given
to check students’ knowledge of vocabulary items. For example, If we get a skin disease, where should we go? How about an internal organ problem?
To briefly summarize, complete pronominal questions occurred more frequently than complete verbal questionsin terms of the distribution of those
questions. Complete pronominal questions were asked mostly in every class, whereas complete verbal questions were found mostly in class A. However, those
two questions served the same purposes as they had been asked.
4. Incomplete Pronominal Questions
The results for the incomplete pronominal questions show that there were 8 5.03 questions asked during the eight observations. The questions were only
asked in class B and class E, four questions for each class. In class B, one question was asked to review the previous meeting’s lesson. The question was
Anda driver? Literally, the question did not seem to be a real incomplete pronominal question, but the teacher asked this question as a continuation of a
preceding question which was What is the responsibility of a teacher? Thus, the question Anda driver?was meant to be the same as if it was What is the
responsibility of a driver? The same pattern emerged in the three other questions whose contexts followed the preceding questions. For example,this is found in the
questionsFor seeing something? For holding something? For walking? These three questions followed the preceding question which was What organ do you
use for tasting food? By saying the phrases with a raising intonation, the teacher
41 expected the students to understand that what she really meant was What organ do
you use for walking?
5. One-Word Questions
Referring to Table 4.2.1, one-word questions were found 6 3.77 times asked by the teacher. It was found four times in class A, once in class B, and once
in class D. All the questions were in the word Next? This question served the same purpose which was to gain students’ oral answers about the picture provided
by the teacher, or when they were discussing a certain exercise. In asking such questions, the teacher raised her intonation to signal that she
was asking questions to the students. By doing this, she expected answer form the students. Naturally, the students knew that when the teacher said next?, she
required responses from the students. Thus even one single word which is said by raising intonation can be considered as a question since it also requires an answer.
6. Phrase Questions
