AN ANALYSIS OF PROFESSIONAL TEACHERS’ QUESTIONS IN EFL CLASSROOM AT SMA N 5 KOTA BENGKULU

In English language classroom, teachers’ questions are important parts of
teaching English language. Teachers need to know what kind of questions which
potentially support students learning the target language. However, students did
not actively participate in learning particularly when responding to teachers’
questions. To overcome this problem, it is important for teachers to modify their
questions through some techniques in order to get students’ responses. This study
reports the types of teachers’ questions used by professional English teachers in
the classroom.
This research was descriptive quantitative research. The research was
conducted at the tenth grade of SMA N 5 Bengkulu. The data were collected
through observation and video recording. The teachers’ questions were analyzed
using types according to Taxonomy Blooms revised by Anderson and Krathwohl
(2001). The research findings show that both teachers the English teachers only
used three from the six types. Namely, remembering, understanding, and
analyzing questions. The types that did not appear were applying, evaluating, and
creating questions. The modification of modifying questions are repeating and
rephrasing. The dominant of remembering questions and how teachers modified
the questions are influenced by teachers’ competence, students’ competence, a
situation of teaching English language, and teaching material.
Keywords: teachers questions, types of questions, English language learning
class.