AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS’ QUESTIONING STRATEGIES DURING THE CLASSROOM INTERACTION AT SMAN 4 MAKASSAR

Abstract

This research was aimed to find out the questioning strategies that the English teacher used and the reason why the English teacher used their questioning strategies during the classroom interaction at SMAN 4 Makassar. This research applied descriptive qualitative method. The data were collected from the observation by video recorder and interview by audio recorder. The data was taken from three English teachers at SMAN 4 Makassar in order to find out what are the questioning strategies that the English teacher used and the reason why the English teacher used their questioning strategies during the classroom interaction. The result of this research showed that the teacher employed were Question-Planning Strategies and Question-Controlling Strategies. The English teacher actively using questioning strategies in the classroom interaction that they were asked the question to check about the students understanding about the previous material, to attract the students’ attention, to support the students to contributions in the class and also to motivate the students to learn. And the reason why the English teacher used their questioning strategies is according to the function of the questioning strategy types.