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2. Arousing Interest and Curiosity Concerning a Topic
The next function of a display question is to arouse learners’ interest and curiosity concerning a topic. It is presented in the table below.
Table 4.8: Arousing Interest and Curiosity Concerning a Topic Class A
No. Question
Students’ Responses
1.
Can you mention the name of an animal? Elephant, tiger, lion
2.
Can you mention an example of a tame animal? Lion, tiger, elephant
3. Can you give me an example of a wild animal?
Lion, tiger, elephant 4.
Where can you find a tame animal? Kebunbinatang
5. Where can you find a wild animal?
Forest From a total of 30 display questions asked, there were 516.7 questions
that were asked to arouse learners’ interest and curiosity concerning the topic being discussed. Questions as listed in the table above were asked by the teacher
at the beginning of the lesson to draw students’ interest and make them curious about what would be learned that day. They were like brainstorming questions
before leading students to the main lesson. The teacher started by giving them an explanation about it, and she then asked them to give an example of a wild animal
and a tame animal as in Can you give me an example of a wild animal? Where can you find a tame animal?
In class B, besides asking questions to check the learners’ understanding of the lesson, the teacher also asked questions to arouse the learners’ interest of the
topic. The list of questions that served this function can be seen in the table below.
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Table 4.9:Arousing Learners’ Interest and Curiosity Concerning a Topic Class B
No. Question
Students’ Responses
1.
Give me an example of a part of your body?
Hand, nose, ear, shoulder
2.
Mention one part of your body? …
3.
Do you know the function based on the part of your body?
…
4.
Cheek, where is your cheek? Students just point to the parts of their
bodies mentioned by the teacher.
5.
Ears?
6.
Where are your teeth?
7.
Where is your nose?
8.
Where is your tongue?
9.
Where is your forehead?
10.
Where is your head?
11.
Where is your hand?
12.
Where are your fingers?
13.
Where is your thumb?
15.
Where is your shoulder?
15.
Where is your foot? From the total of 41 display questions asked in class B, there were 15
36.5 questions posed by the teacher to arouse students’ interest in the topic. She began by asking them Give me an example of a part of your body? Do you
know the function of each part of your body? There were also some questions about parts of the body as in Whereare your teeth? Where is your nose?Other
questions like this were also asked.
55 In class D, there were also questions asked to meet this function as it is
presented in the table below.
Table 4.10: Arousing Interest and Curiosity Concerning a Topic Class D
No. Question
Students’ Responses
1.
What is your occupation now? Student
2.
Can you mention what my occupation is? Teacher
3.
Can you mention the name of a job that you know?
Policeman, doctor, nurse
4.
Can you mention another job? Housewife
5.
What is the workplace of students? School
6.
What is the workplace of a nurse? Hospital
7.
What is the workplace of a doctor? Hospital
8.
What is the workplace of a singer? ….
9.
Where can you see a singer? On TV yah answered by the
teacher
10.
What is the workplace of the police? S1 supermarket others laugh
11.
What is the workplace of a driver?
12.
What is the responsibility of students? Study
13.
What is the responsibility of teachers? Mengajar
14.
What is the responsibility of a nurse? Melayanipasien S2
15.
What is the responsibility of a doctor? Memeriksapasien
16.
What is the responsibility of a singer? Sing
17.
What is the responsibility of a driver? Drive
18.
What is the responsibility of the police? …
19.
Look at the picture. How many pictures are there?
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The lesson discussed in class D was about occupation and the workplace. As shown in the table, from 29 display questions posed in the class there were 19
65.5 questions posed to arouse learners’ curiosity of the topic. The teacher started the lesson by asking an easy question as in Can you mentionwhat my
occupationis? What is your occupation now?Other questions she asked were related to the workplace like What is the workplace of students? What is the
workplace of a nurse?Other questions also asked were about the duties of each occupation. For example, What is the responsibility of a doctor?
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