basic skill teaching

1. Asking Question
By: SARI RAHMA CHANDRA

2. Main Purpose
1. To increase the students participation in their
teaching-learning interaction
2. To arouse the students interest and their
curiosity in the topic they are learning
3. To develop the students active way of
thinking and learning
4. To help students concentrate on the topic
under discussion

3. Types of question
Questions seen from their purposes
Questions seen from their uses (Bloom’s Taxonomy)
Questions based on their scopes

4. Components for asking questions
1) Clarity and Relevance
-The question must be short and clear to the students, and
there are relations between one question and other.
Ex: What is the definition of cube,rectangle,and circle?
2)Speed and Pauses
The question must not be presented in a hurry , and must never be
presented one after another continously without any pauses.
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3)Distribution of questions
The questions must be distributed evenly to all students in the
classroom.
All of student can give comment for question from teacher

5. Asking questions technique
1. Postpone
Ex: after teacher give question,then teacher give a time
for student to thinking and then say that raise your hand
if you can answer my question.
1. Reinforcement
Ex : i sure that you can do it. Are u sure? Can u check u’re
answer?
3. Prompting and Probing
Ex: if the student can’t answer this question teacher can
give question again with the simple question.

6. 1.Compliance Questions
Ex: Could you tell me about what is statistics?
2. Rhetorical Questions
Ex: is it clear for rectangle have four side?
3. Prompting Questions
Ex: Do u know what is the characteristics of cube?
4.Probing Questions
Ex: How do u know that triangle is congruent?

7. 1. Recall Questions
Ex: what is relation in function?
2.Comprehension Questions
Ex: can you explain the difference between linear equation 1 variable and 2
variables?
What is the difference between cube and cuboid?
3. Application Questions
Ex: how long the longest stem that can be placed in a box measuring 6 cm x
4cm x 3cm?
4. Analysis Questions
Ex: proven that (a+b) kuadrat = a kuadrat + 2 ab + b kuadrat.
5. Synthesis Questions
Ex: could you find the distance between padang and bukittinggi?
6. Evaluation Questions
Ex: do you agree about phytagorean theorem like this c quadrat = a kuadrat +
b kuadrat,how we change like this , b kuadrat= c kuadrat – a kuadrat?

8. 1. Narrow Questions
a. Direct narrow questions
ex: 5x7=...
b. Centered narrow questions
ex: how we prove the phytagorean theorem?
2. Broad Questions
a. Open-ended questions
ex: give examples of fractions that result 2/3
b. Valueing Questions
ex: What do you think about conclusion that
made by your friend?