Teachers’ Questioning Strategies In Classroom Interaction At Senior High School

Questioning strategies have long been known as one of the important tools in teaching and learning process. Questioning strategies can help teachers develop their own strategies to enhance the students work and thinking. So teachers can find out students’ understanding about the material. The aims of this study are to find out the types of questions mostly used by teachers in English classroom and to discover teachers’ obstacles when applying questioning strategies in classroom. The participants of this study are two English teachers of SMAN 6 Banda Aceh. To collect the required data for this study, interview and observation were used. The result of the study shows that the teachers used some types of questions. The teachers mostly used short answer and yes/no question in teaching and learning activity. The finding also shows that teachers face an obstacle in applying teachers’ questioning strategies in classroom. For example, lack of students’ vocabulary. Even though the teacher face a obstacle, they always apply questioning strategies in their classroom since these strategies are very useful in the classroom.