Questioning Powers of the Students in the Class

This paper is about the questioning powers of the students in the class. The main focus is to reveal the types of questions produced by the students and to describe their perspectives on their questioning powers. This study employed seventy students as respondents. To collect data, informants were given topics for discussions in the class and their questions were recorded. An open ended questionnaire was distributed to explore their perception towards their questioning powers in the classroom. Findings show that students mostly produced referential questions, which need more explanation and clarification or judgments from the answerers. Findings also show the students’ tendency to ask questions and the factors influencing their capacity in asking questions such as the class situation, their psychological factors, and teachers’ image over the students.