Classroom Questioning Tactics And The Students' Emotions And Performance-An Empirical Study Of Some High School Students In Dingyuan County, Anhui Province

Over the recent decades, as the focus of foreign language teaching is shifted from "the teacher-oriented" to "the student-oriented", more and more attention has been directed to the study of the learner's individual differences in general and his emotional factors in particular. Researches at home and abroad show that the learner's emotional factors have a certain bearing on his English learning achievement and in some cases,even determine its success or failure. However, many teachers fail to attach sufficient importance to the leaner's emotional factors in their classroom teaching of English.This paper attempts to make an investigation and analysis of the relationship between the learner's emotional factors and teacher questioning from the perspective of educational psychology and humanistic pedagogy.The present study is generally qualitative. The methodology used to carry out the present study consists in: Ethnography, narrative inquiry and case study, classroom observation, questionnaire survey and interview . Two stories using ethnography, narrative inquiry and case study were used to reveal the feelings of students' about their teachers' questioning, which are subjective. In order to make up for the limitation, classroom observations in 8 classes given by 8 different teachers,questionnaire survey directed to 100 students and interviews conducted among 16 students who were randomly selected fromthe 8 observed classes were also carried out.Findings from the data analysis show that teacher questioning does have certain effects on learner's emotion, which will affect learner's language acquisition. The questioning involves 6 variables aspects about teacher questioning, namely, number of questions, question type , ways to give out questions, ways to direct questions to responders, wait-time and question modification.In addition, relationship and interaction between teachers and students play an important part too. A new, close, harmonious and interactive teacher- student relationship with the students will help the learners make out their aims and tasks in learning.