The Art of Questioning in English Classroom in Junior Middle School

Abstract

Questioning in English classroom plays a very important role in improving teaching quality. It is one of the most commonly used teaching methods in English classroom in junior middle school. It cannot only stimulate students to report clear answers, but also activate students’ imagination and encourage their thinking. Therefore, how to question in the classroom teaching is of great practical significance. However, there are lots of problems: most of questions are ineffective; the ways of questioning are simple; the wait-time is too short and the questions are not prepared well; the feedback to the students is too general and the evaluation is not profound and teachers control the whole class and students have no right to ask questions. So teachers should focus on the effectiveness and skills of questioning to achieve teaching objectives and make questioning become an art. This article describes how to question from three aspects of ways of questioning, content of questioning and skills of questioning.