On the Study of Teacher’s Question Types and Students’ Answers in Primary School English Teaching

Yang Ning(School of Foreign Languages, Shandong University of Technology)

Abstract

Teachers’ questions have been regarded as an important component in foreign language teaching context. The present paper aims to present a brief investigation into teachers’ question types and students’ answers in primary school English teaching, and tries to draw some implications for primary school English teachers. The video was transcribed and analyzed by the researcher. According to what is surveyed in the study, some questioning strategies were put forward for primary English teaching in the future.

Keywords

Question types; Students’ answers; Strategy

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26549/jetm.v3i1.1145