TEACHER’S QUESTIONS IN ENGLISH AS FOREIGN LANGUAGE (EFL) CLASSROOM

The aim of this study were to describe the teacher’s questions in English as Foreign Language (EFL) occur in English classroom, and to find out the types of teacher’s questions and how far the effectiveness of the teacher’s questions are used in English classroom. The research was conducted by using qualitative descriptive design. The data of this study were teacher’s questions of an English teacher in SMP Negeri 15 Medan. The data were analyzed by using Tsui’s Theory (1995) to find the types of teacher’s questions and the effectiveness of the teacher’s questions based on Ur (1996). The results of this study were (1) There were three types of teacher’s questions used in English classroom of SMP Negeri 15 Medan, namely Open/Closed questions (12.8%), Display/Referential questions (72.6%), and Yes/No questions (14.0%), (2) There were five criteria of the effectiveness of teacher’s questions used in English classroom namely Very Effective (11.9%), Effective (36.7%), Quite Effective (26.5%), Less Effective (17.2%) and Ineffective (7.7%), (3) The reasons of teacher’s questions used in EFL classroom namely (a) Procedural (11.1%), (b) Convergent (70.1% ) and (c) Divergent (18.8% ).