Questioning Techniques for ESOL
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Describe specific ways to develop questioning strategies among students. What kind of classroom is amenable to assist students with questioning and self questioning? Why is it important to assist students with asking questions while they read, especially esol students.
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Importance of questioning in teaching English for students of other languages. It presents a matrix presentation of how the questioning technique should flow based on the study of Berlitz (2000).
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In an article entitled "Developing Fluency Through Questioning Strategies", Jonathan Aliponga of Nishiyamato Gakuen and Hakuho Women's College maintained that "the key to creating an interactive classroom leading to greater fluency is to develop a broad repertoire of questioning strategies which students can utilize in class." According to him some questioning techniques can be specially developed for EFL (ESOL) students that provide stimuli to foster communication at all stages of a lesson. (http://jalt.org/pansig/2003/HTML/Aliponga.htm)
His view is based on many classroom-based studies which show "that in order to develop foreign language speaking skills, focus should be placed on fluency without neglecting the elements of phonology, grammar, and discourse in the spoken output. Fluency is often understood as the ability to carry on a conversation and produce long utterances (Brown, 2001). However, fluency does not necessarily apply only to long utterances. The flow of language in reasonably short segments is important to establish from the very beginning. To achieve this, there is a need to provide students with stimuli for producing short utterances which can be in the form of questioning strategies. " (Aliponga)
In his paper, Aliponga offers some questioning techniques which are adopted from Berlitz (2000). These questioning strategies are ...
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