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Table 4.1: Types of Display Questions No.
Types of questions Number of
Occurrences Percentage
1. Complete verbal questions
13 8.17 2.
Incomplete verbal questions 1 0,62s
3. Single-word questions
6 3.77 4.
Two-word questions 20 12.57
5. Complete pronominal questions
78 49.05 6.
Incomplete pronominal
questions 8 5.03
7. Indonesian-English
mixed questions
9 5.66 8.
Pure Indonesian questions 20 12.57
1. Complete Verbal Questions
The results from the observations and the videotaped transcripts show that overall there were 159 display questions asked in four classes. From the number
of those questions, there were 13 8.17 complete verbal questions asked by the teachers.
In class A, there were 5 complete verbal questions posed to the students. One question served as a lead-in part of the lesson. For example, Can you mention
the name of the animal? One other question was asked to check the students’ knowledge on animal classification, including an example of each classification. It
can be seen in the question Can you give me an example of a wild animal?Another was asked to check students’ progress in doing the exercise as in
Ok, can we start now? All the complete verbal questions asked here were done to elicit already known information related to the subject matter.
For class B, the results show that the teacher only asked 2 complete verbal questions. One question asked at the beginning of the lesson was to review the
previous week’s topic as in Can you mention a kind of job?Another question was put forth to check students’ knowledge on the function of each part of the body. It
37 was seen in the question Do you know the function based on the part of your
body?On the surface, this question seemed to require only yesno responses from the students. However, what the teacher really meant was to get more than just
yesno answers. Indeed, she wanted them to mention the functions of their body parts.
As for class D, there was a total of 5 complete verbal questions asked by the teacher. The first question posed was to review the previous week’s topic
discussed. The teacher wanted to refresh the students’ memory by asking Can you mention the name of the part of your body? Meanwhile, the next 3 questions were
posed as an introductory point to the topic which would be studied on that day. For example, Can you mention what my occupation is? Can you mention the name
of a job that you know?Can you mention another job? The last complete verbal question asked in this class was to draw students’ attention by mentioning a
student’s name as in, Christin, do you understand what I mean? This question was meant for all the students in that class but the teacher only called Christin’s name.
In class E, there was just 1 complete verbal question asked to the students. It was related to the topic they discussed that day. The question was She helps the
doctor in taking care of the patients, she is a …? This question was posed to elicit students’ comprehension about people whose jobs are related to health and
medical fields. To conclude, it was obviously seen that complete verbal questions were
mostly asked in class A and class D. There were 5 questions in each class. While in class B and class E, the questions were only posed 1 and 2 times. However, all
the questions served the same purposes as lead-in parts to the lesson, to review the
38 previous week’s topic, to check students’ knowledge on a certain topic being
discussed, and to direct students’ attention to classroom activities.
2. Incomplete Verbal Questions
