TEACHER’S QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH CLASSROOM INTERACTION
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Abstract
The goal of this study was to describe teachers’ questions in English classroom Interaction and the function of questions that the teachers asked. A descriptive qualitative design was used in this study. The data and source of data was one English teacher who teaches at grade 11 at SMA Negeri 15 Medan. The data were collected by using videotaping and interviews. The data were analyzed by using descriptive qualitative. The result showed that (1) The teacher asked remembering (81.5), understanding (17%) and applying (1.5%) to students. The teacher asked questions to stimulate and maintain students’ interest, encourage students to think and focus on the content of the lesson, enable teachers to clarify what students have said, elicit particular structures or vocabulary items, check students’ understanding and encourage students’ participation in a lesson.