The Use of Teachers’ Questions to Facilitate Meaning Negotiation in Classroom Interaction
Daftar Isi:
- In the era of communicative language teaching, there are lots of ways which can be chosen by teachers to encourage students to speak in the target language. One of the ways is giving questions. In the same time, a teacher can also frequently use questions in the process of meaning negotiation. This research is done in order to know the kind of question frequently used by teachers with and without teaching educational background. Furthermore, this research is also done to know how the teachers’ questions facilitate meaning negotiation. In this research, the writer analyzes questions used by two private English teachers with and without teaching educational background. The writer got the data from the recording taken during the teaching and learning process. After that, the writer analyzed and categorized those questions based on the two kinds of question, close and open question. Moreover, the writer also analyzes how the teachers’ questions facilitate meaning negotiation in the classroom interaction. The result of this research shows that the teacher with teaching educational background frequently uses open questions where in the same time, she often uses questions to facilitate the meaning negotiation process. On the other hand, the teacher without teaching educational background frequently uses close questions where in the same time she also uses questions to facilitate the meaning negotiation.