The Analysis of Teacher Questioning in Improving Students’ Productive Thinking in Reading Descriptive Text

This study was focused on types of questions that the teachers used and analyze how
the questions can improve students’ productive thinking in reading descriptive text
at SMK Negeri 1 Binjai. This study used descriptive qualitative research design. The
subjects of this study were two teachers and two classes of Grade X at SMK Negeri
1 Binjai. This study used video recording, observation, and interview in collecting
the data. The findings showed that teacher 1 used inference question a lot than any
other types. Teacher 1 used 16 inference questions in the first meeting and 6
inference questions in the second meeting. Meanwhile, teacher 2 used evaluation
question a lot than any other types. Teacher 2 used 3 evaluation questions in the first
meeting and 8 evaluation questions in the second meeting. The questions from both
of English teachers at SMK Negeri 1 Binjai improve students’ productive thinking
in reading descriptive text but it doesn’t well enough. The most dominant questions
which increase students' productive thinking are questions which are used to improve
students’ understanding and causal reasoning. The phenomena happened because
students only respond to questions that require an understanding of the text (the
answer is already in the text).