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TEACHERS’ QUESTIONING IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
CLASSROOM

Ikha Hari Pujiani
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ABSTRACT
The investigation concerning the use of teacher’s question has been
significant to conduct since it is one of important techniques in EFL classroom
context (Behnam &Pouriran, 2009). This study aims to identify types of teachers’
questions and cognitive domains which are developed by asking certain questions
in the context of English language teaching (ELT) in a Junior High School in
Salatiga. The observation was conducted three times. The data analyzed were
based on the Wajnryb’s categorization (1992) in terms of type of questions that a
teacher asked in the English classroom. Then, the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy as
cited in Anderson and Krathwohl (2001) is used to analyze which cognitive
domains are developed by asking certain questions in the English classroom. The
results show that the teacher asked Yes/ No, Short Answer/Retrieval style, Openended, Display and Referential questions. Yes/ No, Short Answer/Retrieval and
display questions develop remembering area. On one hand, Open-ended and
referential questions develop analyzing area.
Keywords :Type of questions, cognitive domains