Abstract
This paper is to introduce some effective question skills with the concern of the real classroom situation. After examining roughly the main reasons for questioning and some criteria of good questioning, the paper makes a detailed introduction of some questioning skills. It introduces some factors affecting teacher questioning and then some principles of teacher questioning. It further provides some recommendations for teachers who want to improve their questioning skills.
Keywords: English teaching; students’interest;active thinking; questioning
Contents
Abstract I
Contents I
Introduction 1
1. The principles and aims of teacher questioning in English classroom 2
1.1 The principles of teacher questioning in English classroom 2
1.2 The aims of teacher questioning in English classroom 2
1.3 Teacher’s questioning strategies 2
2. Principles of teacher questioning 3
2.1 Principle of arousing the students’ interests 3
2.2 Principle of motivating active thinking 3
2.3 Principle of commanding acceptable difficulty 3
3 Suggestions. 4
3.1 Suggestions on teacher’s question-raising 4
3.1.1 What to ask 4
3.1.2 Whom to ask 4
3.1.3 How to ask 4
3.2 Suggestions on teacher’s feedback 4
3.2.1 Verbal feedback 4
3.2.2 Non-verbal feedback 4
3.3 Strategy on teacher’s encouraging students as questioners 4
4 .Conclusion 9
References 10
