QUESTIONING STRATEGIES AND STUDENTS’ PREFERENCES (BETWEEN REALITY AND EXPECTATION)

Abstract

This study was set to investigate questioning strategies employed by lecturers and students‟ preferences on the strategies. The study involved two lecturers and 72 students taking General English classes. The lecturers and students came from two different institutions in South Kalimantan, University of Lambung Mangkurat and STKIP PGRI Banjarmasin. The data in this descriptive qualitative study were collected through observation and questionnaire techniques. The researchers conducted the observations four times online to get the data on lecturers‟ questioning strategies. The observed classes were recorded to help the analysis. The questionnaire was distributed to students to get the data on students‟ preferences regarding questioning strategies. Teachers‟ strategies were analyzed based on four questioning strategies categories suggested by Wangru (2016). The findings of this study showed that probing and redirecting strategies were most frequently employed by the lecturers. Repeating was the strategy employed the least. On students‟ side, most students chose prompting as their favorite questioning strategy. Students also agreed that types of questions contributed in determining their responses to the questions.