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were asked to elicit vocabulary to translate and understand the meaning of the sentence in the passage. Meanwhile, another possible reason for using the
comprehension question was to encourage students to participate in a lesson, as in the example below:
Will you say something about formal letter? 11
th
Observation, 23
rd
of April
3. Application
Application has higher intellectual level than comprehension level. Here students are asked to apply the lesson into a new situation or real world.
E.g. What lesson can you get from the story?
5
th
observation, 21
st
of February
Another example is appeared in 9
th
observation which talked about recount text:
Use –ed or not? 27
th
of March Student should apply the best form of tenses. The sample question above can
be asked to elicit particular structure. Other example which required students to apply the lesson into real
world is: Our class is always clean, why? How come? 4
th
observation, 21
st
February
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The students were asked about something related to real world in the classroom. Thus, this kind of question was classified into application level.
Another example was quite interesting since it can be both knowledge and application level as the example in 7
th
observation in 7
th
grade below: ‘making terbentuk dari kata kerja?7
th
observation, 19
th
of March Begin-beginning, contoh lainnya apa? 7
th
observation, 19
th
of March The second term was considered as application level because previously
teacher had talked about the form-making using –ing. Then students were
required to apply the theory of –ing form in a new situation, not only recalling
previous lesson. Therefore, it can be seen that the occurrence of questions in this level
is very little. This maybe because it is quite difficult since in application level question, the student should apply the theory of the lesson into a new context
of lesson. From the sample questions, eliciting particular structure is the most possible reason of teachers using this level of question. E.g.
Was or were? 9
th
observation, 27
th
of March Use
–s or not? 8
th
observation, 26
th
of March
4. Analysis
In this level students were required to analyze to identify reasons, causes, or motives and reach conclusions or generalization. E.g.
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What kind of story is that? 1
st
observation, 8
th
of February Is it happy ending? Why? 5
th
observation, 21th of February In the examples, students were asked to analyze the kind of story and give
reason why the story was happy ending or not. The purpose of teachers using this level can be for
developing students’ critical thinking skills and inquiring attitudes since the students should analyze with their own reason.
5. Synthesis
