A Study Of Questioning In High School English Class

Questioning plays an important role in classroom teaching. It's an approach for teachers to input, to deliver and to share information with the students for the purpose of communication.This paper focuses on the English teachers' questioning activity in senior high schools'classroom teaching and takes 10 English classes in the Jianping experimental middle school as the samples. Through the classroom observation, survey and interview, It furthers the study on five models of English classroom teaching, analyzes the problems arising from teachers' questioning activities in classrooms of senior high schools and try to find out the problems existing in the English class. In this way, it further explores the strategies and skills teachers should adopt to ensure the students' principal part in English learning and improve their questioning skills in classroom teaching. All of these are supposed to contribute to the effective teaching in the English curriculum reform.This research is based on the classroom observation of 5 English teachers in Jinping experimental school in Liaoning and on the survey of 100 students from four senior middle schools. After the survey, an interview was held among 20 students from the author's own school as well as another interview among English teachers in the author's school. The research focus on the following aspects:1) Teachers' questioning activities in class:types of questions, distribution of questioning, waiting time, types of feedback and so on.2) The problems exist in the English class.3 Strategies and skills to optimize the English questioning activities in English teaching...