【正文】 ng process and elicit thoughtful responses One thing is that deserves peoples attention is teachers questioning is not necessarily the interrogatives Interrogative sentence is a sentence which is in the form of a question Richards gave an example揇id you open the windowr is both a question and an interrogative But sentences like Could you shut the window is an interrogative not a question the function of this sentence may be a request for someone to shut the window but not a question about whether or not the person is able to do so In fact this problem is concerned with the relationship between the linguistic and illocutive that is the relationship between noninterrogative utterances in the form of questions and interrogative utterances which are not in a form of questions22 The Features of Classroom QuestioningPertinent The teachers should follow and question the plexity of the content and determine different targets While questioning the content of the rudimentary knowledge they can face the students of poor degree but face middle and upper degree students when the questions knowledge is of difficult point For this reason teachers should design the depth and scope when asking questions Not only face all students but also pay attention to the individual charactersistic in order to fully reflect its pertinenceExciting A German educationist once said that the art of teaching is waking up and encouragement To encourage students to take part in the class actively namely to make the atmosphere relaxed and exciting teachers should apply various methods to teach such as playing games singing songs or giving a speech and so on On the contrary if teachers just always talk without passion in class students must lose interest day by day23 The Types of Questions Used in English Classes The types of questions that the teachers ask affect the kind of responses that the students produce studies of questioning have proposed various categories of questions In this section question types that are important to the analysis of language classrooms will be considered Factual Questions and Reasoning QuestionsA mon way of classifying questions is to look at the question word used questions that begin with what when who and where are considered as factual questions while those that begin with how and why are classified as reasoning questions but this is not absolute In order to see whether this classification helps to understand the nature of questions and pare the what question and the how question in the following text you can say that the first one is a factual question and the other is a reasoning question The teacher is discussing the text entitled The Population Surprise with the students in classTWhat essentially affects human populationSModernity or human values The teacher is discussing the text entitled For or Against Smoking in Public Places with the students in classT Why is the author for smoking in the publicS Because public places belong to both smokers and nonsmokers OpenquestionsLook at the following two conversationsThe teacher is checking the students understanding of the title of the text under discussing Scared Smokeless which means the author was scared by the two scares on his body and therefore gave up smoking forever T Mary Yesterday we learned the text entitled Scared Smokeless What does it mean S Sorry I dont understand it T Sit down please Tom Do you know Bahia thinks the scars resulted from the surgery operations that scared him to stop smokingT Good Are you clear It was the scars that scared him to give up smoking sit down please It is Monday and the students are a little tired the teacher wants to ask the students a few free questions to enable them to concentrate on the lessonT I am curious about what did you do at the weekend Jean what did you do Can you tell usOn Saturday morning I did some washing and in the afternoon I slept in bed On Sunday morning I went to visit several of my classmates I came back at about 400T Oh no wonder that you look so tiredT Lily how about youS I went to Peking University to visit my brother with my parents on Saturday on Sunday I just stayed at home surfing the internet and doing my homeworkIn the first example the teachers question has only one answer although the students may express it in a variety of ways But in the second example for the same question different students have different answers Thus if teachers questions are classified in terms of students language output there are two kinds questions that have only one acceptable answer and those that have a range of acceptable ones Barnes refers to that former as closedquestions and the later as openquestions for they stimulate students to think more and speak more Therefore the classroom seems to be more interactive3 The Problem in Classroom Interaction and Its Causes31 Students Lack of Competence in Communication It is generally acknowledged that most English as a Foreign Language students are less petent municatively than linguistically Since almost questioning constitutes a major part of classroom instruction it is really true that many teachers often plain that their students are rather reluctant to participate in classroom interaction Many students have low confidence and feel uneasy when they speak English This unease is often reinforced by students anxiety to speak well and some teachers feedback and assessment techniques Teachers need to provide more and better opportunities for students to develop their oral skills and use these skills in learning progress It is also necessary for teachers to develop their questioning techniques to encourage their students to involve in the learning process which both sides seem to wantMost students are not as petent municatively as they are linguistically There are two main reasons for this traditional teachercentered instruction and teachers problemati