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on basic questioning. The components are structuring, phrasing, focusing, re-directing, distributing, pausing, reacting, prompting, and changing the
level of cognitive demand.
1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
In this study, I focused on the questioning skills because I am interested in knowing the novice teachers’ skill in conducting basic
questioning. I chose novice teachers as the subjects of my study because in my opinion novice teachers still have to improve their skill through
practices. I would like to find out whether they apply basic questioning skill components that they have learned in the microteaching class into the
real classroom practice. In this case, I investigated not only the basic questioning skills but also the types and levels of questions when they
posed the questions. I am concerned with basic questioning skills because from my
experience as student’s advisor in practice teaching for about four years, I found out that these novice teachers dominated the classroom talk when
they explained the lesson. They used small portion of basic questioning in their practice teaching. Based on this experience, I wrote my thesis
entitled “Novice Teachers’ Skill to Carry out Basic Questioning in Practice Teaching”.
The following ideas support the reasons for choosing the topic of basic questioning for my thesis:
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1. one of the basic skills that every teacher must have in the teaching
activity Stones, 1972:87 2.
a very important component in the teaching activity because it has some objectives especially in promoting the students’ level of
understanding and enhance their powers of critical thinking Bedwell, 1975 cited in Turney 1983
3. an important thing in developing the rapport between the students
and the teacher O’Neill, 2003 4.
a guidance for the teacher to establish an interactive language teaching, and teacher’s questioning will initiate classroom
interaction Brown, 2001
1.3 Research Questions
By discussing the components of basic questioning skill made by novices, I tried to answer the following research questions:
1. Which types of basic questioning components do the novice teachers
use in the classroom? 2.
What types of question do the novice teachers use in the classroom? 3.
What levels of questioning category do the novice teachers use in the classroom?
1.4 Purpose of the Study
