Types of questions teachers use and their importance in the reading classes of English

Abstract

This article proposes to analyze the
teacher's questions in English as a Foreign
Language reading classes of the secondary school
to verify the extent to which they use the
questions from an adequate way to instigate
students' critical reading. As part of my MA
dissertation about Reading studies in English, I
attempted to describe the teachers' profile in
Florianópolis public schools, Santa Catarina, in the
reading instruction by the questioning perspective
to discuss pedagogical impllcations in the
questions asked by those teachers.

DOI: 10.28998/0103-6858.2007v1n39p159-172