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An Analysis of the Cognitive Level
of Teacher Questions in EFL Classroom
of Junior High School in Semarang Residence

THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan

Desi Ariani
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ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
2014

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Copyright@ 2014.Desi Ariani and Victoria Usadya Palupi, MA-ELT.

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Faculty of Language and Literature, Satya Wacana University, Salatiga.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Approval Page

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Copyright Statement

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Publication Agreement Declaration

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Table of Content

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List of Table

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List of Figure

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Abstract

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Introduction

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Theoretical Framework
Question

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Levels of Question

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The use of cognitive level of teacher’s question

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The Study
Context of the Study

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Participants of the Study

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Instrument of Data Collection

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Data Collection Procedures

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Data Analysis Procedures

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Findings and Discussion

12-21

Conclusion

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Acknowledgment

24-25

References

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LIST OF TABLES
The observation protocol used in the study

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Classification result of the study

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LIST OF FIGURE
Percentage of the observation result

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Cognitive level of questions used by the teachers

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An Analysis on the Cognitive Level
of Teacher Questions in EFL Classroom
of Junior High School in Semarang Residence
DesiAriani
Abstract
To help students achieve their optimum learning, teachers should apply
questioning strategies in their classroom. One of questioning strategy which can be
applied is related to various cognitive levels of questions. However, seeing teachers
teaching during my teaching practicum in a junior high school in Banyubiru, I noticed
that some teachers did not really optimize the questioning practice. This study aims to
explore cognitive levels of questions used by three EFL teachers in junior high school
in Banyubiru. They taught seventh and eighth grade students. In this study,
observation was used to collect the data. The data were teachers’ questions, which
were classified into six levels of cognition based on Bloom’s taxonomy. The result of
this study shows that the teachers used various cognitive levels of questions, but they

mostly used comprehension level questions which are in the lower order of cognition.
This study can be useful for teachers to be aware of various cognitive levels of
questions and apply in the classroom in order to help students to optimize their
learning.
Keywords: questioning, cognition, level of question, Bloom’ taxonomy, higher
order, lower order