students mastering certain knowledge related to the material being taught. It is better to ask students’ help or encourage the students to do something in the class.
The following cases are the examples. [118] : anyone wants to read?
[136] : e..can you repeat Harry? [288] : Who wants to be the first?
2. Convergent Questions
Questions which require students’ focus on a central theme, students’ memory on previous information and short answer or short statement are
classified to convergent questions p. 186. Table 4.1 shows that there are 45,4 convergent questions in the classroom. The percentage result proves that
convergent question is the most frequent question used by female teachers during the learning process.
Some of the convergent questions are stated as introductory questions to lead the students to the material that is going to be learned. This case occurs in the
following questions. [147] : What word you say maybe in Indonesian when you meet people?
[221]: Have you ever seen e..your friend sick or e..sad? In case [147], the teacher leads the students to remember the expression
they usually use in their mother tongue when they meet people while the material for the day is greeting in English. This question is categorized as convergent
question since it focuses on a central theme which is greeting in Indonesia. Students’ answer on this question is also the same which is halo, selamat pagi.
The same case also happens in [221] in which the teacher uses question to introduce the material. When the teacher asks this question, the material that they
are going to learn is about expressing sympathy. So, the teacher conducts this question to give picture of the material since expressing sympathy is expressed to
sadness thing. The answer of this question is classified as convergent question because the students’ answer is yes orno answer.
The researcher also found out that convergent questions occur when the teacher wants to recall students’ background knowledge on certain thing. Most of
this question’s function is stated by the teachers in the beginning and the end of the class. In the beginning of the class, the teachers ask this question to review
previous materials such as in the following case. [206] : What have you learned with Ms.Uli?
[236]: Do you still remember the materials last week? Those two questions are the example when the teachers use convergent question
to recall student’s knowledge on certain material. The teachers ask about the materials that they have learned before.
3. Divergent Questions
The last type of question which was found in Micro Teaching class is divergent question. Table 4.2 presents 7 of the whole questions belong to this
group. It represents that the frequency of this type is the lowest compared to the other two types of questions. As Richard and Lockhart 1996 have explained,
divergent question is the opposite of convergent question. Divergent question PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
