ABSTRACT
This chapter explores teacher to be both more aware of the nature and demands of the questions teacher ask in the classroom, and to be more skilled in the ways teacher ask them. It discusses the differences between open and closed questions, the different cognitive demands that different kinds of question will make, and some of the different questioning strategies or techniques that can be used. The chapter deals with a descriptive case study in which the questions a teacher asks and the answers her pupils provide, when they are examining a short story. Responding appropriately to a closed question is a skill that successful pupils acquire at an early age in their educational careers. Asking a question presupposes some kind of answer, and an answer in its turn anticipates some kind of response from the questioner. Teachers' responses to pupils' answers can also assist in developing further their own understanding.
