Abstract: Teachers’ questioning, an important form of classroom interaction, is also the most important factor that influences classroom interaction. Teachers’ questions serve to form a chain reaction of teacher-student interaction and give the teacher immediate feedback about student comprehension. This thesis is a quantitative study on the basis of a classroom investigation. It takes the teachers and students from the non-English majors in Zhejiang University of Science and Technology as the studying subjects, and classroom observation, questionnaires and interviews as the studying methodology to analyze the teachers’ questioning strategies. The research is essential to find out a series of characteristics of teachers’ questioning strategies, to help teachers to realize the strong and weak points of their questioning strategies, which will facilitate college English teaching.
Key Words: EFL classroom; classroom interaction; teachers questioning strategies
CONTENTS
Introduction 1
Interaction in EFL Classroom 1
Definition of Interaction 2
The Pedagogical Importance of Classroom Interaction ........................................2
The Problems in Classroom Interaction and Its Cause 3
Questioning in Interaction Classroom 3
2.1 Basic Concepts of Questions 3
2.2 Questioning Strategies 4
3. Methodology 5
3.1 Objectives 5
3.2 Setting and Subjects 6
3.3 Instruments 6
4. Data Results and Analysis 8
5. Discussion and Suggestions 11
5.1 Discussion about the Investigation Results 11
5.2 Suggestions on Questioning Strategies for EFL Teachers 12
6. Conclusion 13
Acknowledgments 14
Bibliography 15
