Questioning

Questioning

1. Can questions help readers?

   • Getting students to answer questions is one way for the teacher to get some acccess to what is going on in their minds.

2. Dealing with answers

   • the key role of the teacher.
   • A challenging question is useles to most of the class if the teacher simply accepts the first correct answer and moves on; it can only help if every student tries hard to answer it. Yet in the reading class, the proccess by which the student arrived at an answer is critical. Key factor is to make sure the students can look at the text when answering.

3. Exploring meaning through discussion

   • One way of using a resource: Multiple choice questions
     • discussion is the key

4. Purpose of questioning

   • make students aware of the way language is used to convey meaning
   • strategies readers can use to interpret texts.

5. Forms of question

   • Classified according to their grammatical form