8 14. Student Language Production refers to the answers or comments given
by the students orally, in classroom during English teaching and learning process which is generated from the teacher questions.
1.6 The Structure of This Thesis
This thesis consists of five chapters. Besides the introduction part, there are four other chapters. They will be introduced separately as follows:
Chapter I is the introduction of the whole study. It includes the background of conducting study on teacher questions, and then presents the
research questions and the purposes of the present study. At the end of this chapter researcher presents the key terms those frequently used in this study and the
description of this thesis structure. Chapter II discusses the theoretical views by which the present study
underpinned. The theoretical views include the nature of questioning in classroom teaching which covers the functions and purposes of questions in classroom
teaching; the position of questioning in classroom language learning which covers comprehensible input hypothesis, interactional hypothesis, and output hypothesis;
the position on questioning in classroom interaction; and types of question. Finally, this chapter ends by presenting some related studies conducted by many
researchers concerning about the question in classroom language learning. Chapter III constitutes the methodological aspects of this thesis. In this
section, the researcher elaborates the methodological issues of the present study. The elaboration includes the research design, research method, research validity,
9 participants, research setting, techniques of gathering data, and techniques of
analyzing data respectively. Chapter IV elaborates the findings and discussion. The analysis is carried
out based on the three research questions. The analysis is presented in sequence starting from types of teacher questions and student responses, followed by
modification techniques used by the teachers, and the last is to what extent teacher questions facilitate language learning. At the end of each elaboration, the
researcher presents the findings related to each research questions. Finally, at the end part of this section the researcher discusses how the findings are seen from the
perspective of comprehensible input hypothesis, interaction hypothesis, and output hypothesis.
Chapter V is the conclusion part. This part summarizes the findings obtained from the present study. At the end of this section, the researcher will
elaborate some possible recommendations for conducting further similar related studies. Then it discusses the limitations of the present study and puts forward
some suggestions for the further study on teacher questions.
45 CHAPTER III
METHODOLOGY
In this section, the researcher will elaborate the methodological aspects of this study. The elaboration will include the research design, research method,
research validity, the participants, the research setting, techniques of gathering data, and technique of analyzing data respectively.
3.1 Research Design
