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D. Discussion and Finding

1. Types of Teacher Questions

Actually, the teache r‟s questions during pre-reading activity are identified in the terms of Clarifying C, Interpretive I, Reflective R, and Evaluative E. Moreover, the questions will be analyzed starting from the 3 rd Grade to 5 th Grade. Then, the following table belo w shows the distribution of teacher‟s questions used in pre-reading for each class see Table 4.1. Type of Questions Class C I R E Total 3 rd Grade 2 3 17 1 23 4 th Grade 2 19 21 5 th Grade 9 7 30 39 Total Questions 13 10 66 1 90 Percentage 14.44

11.11 73.33

1.11 100

Table 4.1 The distribution of teachers‟ questions used in each class According to the Table 4.1, Clarifying, Interpretive, Reflective, and Evaluative questions are used in the pre-reading activity. In addition, the four types of questions have different frequencies in use and it will be discussed further in the following explanation. 1a. Reflective Questions Essentially, this type of question is mostly used by the teachers in the pre- reading activity in the 3 rd , 4 th , and 5 th Grade. It is shown in the Table 4.1 that Reflective questions emerge 66 times out of 90 73.33 in the three classes. The reason why Reflective questions are mostly used by the teacher in the classes because based on the writer‟s observation, the reading topic on each 14 class is about something that is familiar or well-known by the students. Here, there are some examples of the reading topic used in the classrooms; “Newspaper 3 rd Grade,” “Short Story 4 th Grade,” and “King Midas 5 th Grade.” In fact, this type of question will be asked by the teachers based on the students‟ own experiences and the fact that they have already known. Moreover, these are the following examples of Reflective questions used in the pre-reading activity of the 5 th Grade when the teacher taught about a Greek myth see Extract 1. Extract 1 Teacher C : Do you know about Greek? All students : Yes. Teacher C : What do you know about Greek? Student 1 : Ancient. Student 2 : god, goddess Student 3 : Myth. Teacher C : Good. Everybody can see? the teacher points the slide show All students : Yes. Teacher C : So, now I want you to guess who is in the picture. It‟s all about the god and goddess. The first picture, who is this? the teacher points the picture in the slide show All students : Ares. Teacher C : it is the god of …. All students : war. Based on classroom observation, 5 th Grade, on February 4 th , 2013 Actually, the examples of Reflective questions were taken in the beginning of pre-reading activity before the students read the Greek myth entitled King Midas. Here, the teacher asked some questions which are related to the Greek myth as the reading topic see Extract 1. In fact, this type of questions is based on the students‟ experience, fact, and observation about something.