1 questioning skills of efl teachers by masduki may, 2011
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Questioning Skills of EFL Teachers
By Masduki
May, 2011
Ice-breaking Background:Ice-breaking Background:Character Shift is here in the “SCharacter Shift is here in the “Song of ong of
Questions”Questions”
Song I: “Kowe bocah ngendi Le?” “Kula lare ndesa” “Kowe arep nyangdi Le?” “Badhe dateng kuta” “Kathik nggawa arit Le?” “Damel mbacok Landa” “Yen Landane mati Le?” “Indonesia merdeka”
Song IISong II
“Kowe bocah ngendi Le?” “Kula lare ndesa” “Kowe arep nyangdi Le?” “Badhe dateng kuta” “Kathik nggawa arit Le?” “Damel pados arta” “Yen wus duwe duit Le?” “Damel sinau maca”
Song IIISong III
“Kowe bocah ngendi Le?” “Aku bocah ndesa” “Kowe arep nyangdi Le?” “Arep menyang kuta” “Kathik nggawa arit Le?” “Kanggo mbacok kanca” “Yen kancamu mati Le?” “Sepedahe tak gawa”
The Real Background: Shift of teaching The Real Background: Shift of teaching paradigm should be here accordingly!paradigm should be here accordingly!
PP 19/2005
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• Reading is a matter of simply extracting information
from the text
• The text is full of meanings
• The meanings can be poured straight into the readers’
mind
A Traditional Approach To ReadingA Shift in the Teaching of Reading:
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The (relatively) new approaches to readingThe (relatively) new approaches to reading
Goodman (1995): Psycholinguistic Model
Eskey (1998): Interactive Model
Anderson (2000): Schema Theory
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Psycholinguistic View of ReadingPsycholinguistic View of Reading
Reading is not a linear process. Readers sample texts, make and test hypotheses and
predictions about what they are reading (based on their background knowledge)
How?
A reader makes use of his organ information processing for:
Recognition Initiation Prediction Confirmation Correction
(Goodman, 1995) Termination
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1.1. Reading is a more complex process.Reading is a more complex process.
2.2. Reading is “a kind of dialog” between the reader Reading is “a kind of dialog” between the reader and the text.and the text.
3. “Interaction” has been handled form two perspectives.
4. Interaction between the reader and the text.
5. Interaction between the lower and higher levels of reading process.
The Interactive Approach Suggests
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What can we learn from the models:
1.1. Teachers of reading comprehension are Teachers of reading comprehension are
supposed to activate necessary and relevant supposed to activate necessary and relevant
schemata to assist the students.schemata to assist the students.
2. The reader’s prior background of the content
facilitates his/her processing the text.
3. Fluent reading results from the simultaneous
interaction between the higher and the lower
level skills of reading.
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Lower level skills are known as
identification skills:
Recognizing words and sentences necessary for
decoding and extracting explicit information
Higher level skills require more cognitive
efforts:
Reading between the lines to find the implicit
information
Reading beyond the lines to understand the writer’s
point of view and making interpretation.
Fluent reading occurs only when lower and higher levels operate together.
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What happens in EFL reading classes ?
EFL Reading Classes :
Reading is a complex process.
Students have not yet mastered the medium for successful reading activities (Sadtono, 2005).
AN EFL TEACHING PROBLEM
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EFL Reading Classes continued
Many studies are conducted focusing on learners:e.g. investigating the strategy used by learners to comprehend a text (Retno, 2004).
Common evidence (Rubin. 1994; Yuliati, 1999; Emeksiz. 2003) shows that reading interactions in EFL classes may not always occur among the learners themselves.
Learners may need someone who will promote interaction and comprehension.
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Who ?
THE TEACHER
Why?
1. To initiate and sustain interaction in the classroom is the teacher’s responsibility.
2. The teacher’s performances is as important as the learner for a complemented interactive process.
Teacher’s Intervention Is Required
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How/What Intervention ?
In EFL Reading Classes :
Teachers make use of different tools to initiate interaction in the classroom.
The most commonly used tool is ASKING QUESTIONS (Long and Sato. 1983; Johnson. 1990; Ellis. 1994).
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Why Questions?
Through asking questions, teachers help learners:
Develop lower and higher cognitive process Use their background knowledge to interact
with the text and to build comprehension The teacher is a professional question maker
(Gall, 1970) To know how to question is to know how to
teach To question well is to teach well Good questions are vital to good teaching
(Averbach, 1983)
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Questioning is the most:
Influential single teaching act.
Valuable of all teaching devices.
The Greatest medium of instruction (Hyman. 1989).
IT IS ALMOST IMPPOSSIBLE TO CONCEIVE OF TEACHING
WITHOUT ASKING QUESTIONS
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This Study :
A particular concern with the use of questions by non-native English teachers, focusing on:
The Types of Questions
How to make teacher questions effective in helping students reach understanding
(how teachers should make use of questions effectively in teaching)
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The Research Problems :
What are the types of questions posed by EFL teachers in RC courses?
How do EFL teachers make effective questions in RC courses?
Findings: Findings:
4.14.1 The Types of Questions Posed by the EFL Teachers The Types of Questions Posed by the EFL Teachers
in RC Coursesin RC Courses
4.1 Display Questions:
Requesting the students to display their knowledge known by the teacher
4.2 Referential
Asking for information which is not known by the teacher
Closed
With only a single correct answer
Open
With multiple correct answers
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4.2 Strategies Employed by EFL Teachers to Make Effective 4.2 Strategies Employed by EFL Teachers to Make Effective QuestionsQuestions
Translation (Code Switching) Repetition Pausing (wait-time) Probing
o Focusing on Subordinate Categoryo Focusing on exemplification
Rephrasingo Using clues that describe the attribute of the expected answero Comparing or contrasting the expected answer to somethingo Giving an alternative/choice
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Conclusions:Conclusions:The Types of Teacher Questions:The Types of Teacher Questions:
The range of questions as observed falls into two categories: Display and Referential Display > Referential
The observed teachers : Activate lower level skill of reading
Call for surface level meaning
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Conclusions…………………………….. continuedConclusions…………………………….. continued
Response Types of questions(e.g Wh-Question > Yes/No Question)
Open question types trigger more complex utterances than closed questions types
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ConclusionConclusion…………………………..continued…………………………..continued
No rigid separation of question types took place during the reading
No single type of question turned out to be the most effective
Combination of display and referential Effective
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The strategies to make effective questionsThe strategies to make effective questions
Translation
Repetition
Pausing Effective questioning strategies
Probing +Modif. (Helping /facilitating students to reach the
Rephrasing +Modif. intended responses in comprehending a reading
text)
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Effective questioning strategy in one reading class (L-1)
Not always effective in another class (L-2/EFL)
Language proficiency of teachers and learners Level of questions
Purpose of questioning
Contributing factors
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No rigid separation of strategy took place during the reading
No single type of strategy turned out to be the most effective
Combination of more than one strategy
Effective
(for specific shared purpose)
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ClarityClarity
Possible Combinations
DistributionDistribution
Sequence Sequence (Structuring)(Structuring)
ClarityClarity
SequenceSequence
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Referring to the findings on question types and strategiesReferring to the findings on question types and strategies
Aspects of Effective Teacher questions
Linguistic Non-Linguistic
Clarity Conciseness Form Sequence Wait time Distribution
SuggestionsSuggestionsfor Teachers and the LCfor Teachers and the LC
Teachers’ Intervention in ESP is required.
The intervention is directed to the use effective questions and questioning strategies
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University Students
High order thinking
Exploration of concept and Ideas
High level questions (referential)
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SuggestionSuggestion………………………………………………………continued………………………………………………………continued
Teaching Asking Question
Adopt questioning strategies increasing students’ involvement ! Support a special training for questioning skill !
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For other researchersFor other researchers
Question Important tool in language classroom Strategy Modification Make students get involved
1. A quantitative study to see the effect of different types of questions on the student responses in other language skill is interesting
2. The students’ psychological effect upon receiving questions
3. Investigation involving more subjects with different background
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Research MethodResearch Method
The study is intended to explore:The types and the strategies that make teacher question
effective in reading comprehension courses.
Qualitative Approach to enable descriptions and in-depth analyses
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The DesignThe Design
A Case Study It is a research design in which the researcher typically
observes the characteristics of an individual or a group of individuals.
The observation is to probe deeply and analyze intensively multifarious phenomena:
One exceptional case/individual actor (exemplary teachers) was chosen
A specific setting was examined (reading Comprehension course)
A particular event was observed (asking questions)
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Research SubjectsResearch Subjects
Purpose:To describe some possible aspects that make EFL Teacher Questions
Effective.The subjects required:
English teachers of reading comprehension course
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What Kind of Teacher?What Kind of Teacher?
Those who are believed: To be representative of everything observedTo be representative of everything observed
(Questioning The act to be observed) ToTo provide maximum insight and understanding
Exemplary Teachers (Good Teachers) Needed!How to select?“Selecting a sample of participants/subjects who is
perceived to be special, relevant, and to have superior performance, and thus, deserve to be the exemplary sample”
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Selection of the research subjectSelection of the research subject
Conducted in UMM; 46 teachers were selected
Selection process: Already existing mechanismAlready existing mechanism: : Board of Academic Quality Board of Academic Quality
AssuranceAssurance (BKMA) (BKMA) Student’s opinionStudent’s opinion
Result:
2 exemplary teachers found
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Data and Data SourcesData and Data Sources
Utterances of Reading Comprehension Teachers:
Data
Teacher questions and Students’ opinion (statements)
Teachers and Students as a Source of data
Teacher questions and statements(Soft Data)
Transcriptions of teacher questions(Hard Data)
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InstrumentsInstruments
The ResearcherHuman instrument to respond, adapt, emphasize, expand, process, clarify, and explore during data collection and analysis
Field-notes To write everything the researcher experiences and thinks during the data collection
Video and Audio-tape recorder:To record the events in the field
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Data CollectionData Collection
The Researcher: Observing the classroom process Recording verbal interaction (questions generated
by teachers) and stop recording until researcher finds the point of data saturation
Interviewing the subjects Transcribing Coding the data
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Data AnalysisData Analysis
Data ReductionData ReductionData DisplayData DisplayConclusion Drawing Conclusion Drawing VerificationVerification
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Data Collection
Field notes Transcription
Data Coding Data Reduction
Data Display
YesNo
Final ConclusionTypes of EFL Teacher Questions
Effective EFL Questioning Strategies
Temporary Conclusion(one semester?)
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Research StagesResearch StagesDeveloping Research Design
A Case study
Preliminary Study: Finding Research Focus Observing Feasible Subjects
(Exemplary Teacher)
Actual Study
DATA
Instrument: Researcher Video&Tape Recorder Field notes
Collection: Non Participant Interview
Sources: Reading Classes Responses to Interview
Analysis
Finding
Report Writing