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TYPES OF QUESTIONS USED IN TEACHING ENGLISH AT
LEBAH PUTIH SCHOOL OF LIFE
David Christanto
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Abstract
This study aims to describe the types of questions that are used for teaching English to
the first graders at Lebah Putih school of Life. Real-time observation was used to collect the data
in the classroom as the main instrument aided by digital camera and voice recording. This article
presents the example of type of questions used by first grader English teacher at Lebah Putih
School of Life. Kearsley’s (1976) theories were used as a main theory in this study. There are six
types of questions as stated by Kearsley (1976). However, in five times class observations at
Lebah Putih , only three types of questions were used by the teacher in the class observations.
They are Echoic, Social Control, and Epistemic ( Referential question), the other three types of
questions (Attentional, Expressive, and Verbosity) were not used by the teacher.
Key-word: types of questions, teachers’ question.