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Results
An Ongoing Questioning Process
A total of 209 questions were identified and classified (Table 24.2). Task-oriented
or meta-level questions were 21%. Questions calling for short answers were 6%.
Almost four questions out of five were ones likely to generate long answers (73%).
Students asked 55% of all questions. This was a first indication that the classroom
discourse might be departing from the basic IRF/E structure.
Table 24.3 shows that only one-third (29%,
n
=
61) of all 209 questions were
asked during the first turn (I). These questions were asked four times out of five
(79%,
n
48) by teachers. At times, these questions were the result of a classroom
process of question identification, the teacher writing the question for a matter of
convenience. Almost all questions (97%) were long-answer questions.
One-fourth (26%,
n
=
54) of second turn/moves (R) were questions (Table 24.4).
Long-answer questions comprised 65%, and students asked the majority of these
questions. Students also asked task-oriented/meta questions.
In the third move and beyond (FI), students and teachers also asked questions
(Table 24.5). Students asked 68% (
n
=
64) of the questions, and one-fourth (24.5%)
of their questions were task-oriented or meta-level ones. Most of their questions
were long-answer questions (42.5%,
n
=
=
40), and almost none (1.1%) were short-
answer questions.
Table 24.2
Types of teachers' and students' question moves
Task-oriented/meta
questions
Short-answer
questions
Long-answer questions
Total 209 questions
Teachers: 95
Students: 114
(43) 21%
Teachers' questions: 9
Students' questions: 34
(13) 6%
Teachers' questions: 5
Students' questions: 8
(153) 73%
Teachers' questions: 81
Students' questions: 72
Students
e.g., Self-directed
learning
e.g., Need clarification
e.g., Verification
e.g., Disjunctive
e.g., Example
e.g., Interpretation
e.g., Causal
consequence
Teachers
e.g., Request/directive
e.g., Concept
completion
e.g., Definition
e.g., Comparison
Table 24.3
Teachers' and students' questions as initiation (I) moves
Task-oriented/meta
questions
Short-answer
questions
Long-answer
questions
First-turn questions
(I) 61
1 (2%)
1 (2%)
59 (96%)
Teachers 48 (79%)
1 (2%)
0 (0%)
47 (76%)
Student(s) 13 (21%)
0 (0%)
1 (2%)
12 (20%)
