QUESTIONING STRATEGIES USED BY TEACHER IN CLASSROOM INTERACTION IN THE TENTH GRADE OF SMA SWASTA AMIR HAMZAH

This study is aimed at finding out the types of questions used by teacher in
classroom interaction and to explore the process or application of questions used
in the teaching and learning process. The data for this study were taken from one
teacher in the tenth grade of Sma Swasta, Amir Hamzah Medan (2023–2024).
This is descriptive qualitative research; the data were collected by recording the
teaching and learning process and interviewing the English teacher. A transcript
of the teaching and learning process and the interview were made. Based on the
research findings, it was discovered that the teacher produced four types of
questioning strategies: intentional questioning, incidental questioning, lower
cognitive questioning, and higher cognitive questioning. The teacher applies
different types of questioning strategies. The first is intentional questioning by
giving nine questions to the students during the learning and teaching process in
English classroom interaction. And the second one is an incidental question by
giving one question to the students; the third one is a lower cognitive question by
giving ten questions to the students; and the last is a higher cognitive question by
giving three questions to the students. And based on all the types of questions that
teachers use in classroom interaction, the incidental question and the lower
cognitive question are The most dominant is the use of ten-grade teacher Sma
Amir Hamzah Medan. This study also found that the process of the teacher using
questioning strategies in classroom interaction was based on seven processes of
questioning strategies in classroom interaction. They are: start of questioning
(what could it be?, drag out your wait time), Techniques to use when calling upon
students (ask multiple students before providing feedback, build upon the wrong
answer, cold calling, fist to five) Follow-up Question: Ask deep and meaningful
follow-up questions.