An Analysis of Teachers’ Competence in Constructing Reading Comprehension’s Questions

Abstract

Questioning is one of the thinking processing skills which is structurally embedded in thinking operation of critical thinking, creative thinking, and problem-solving. Therefore, teacher’s questions may encourage students to have high level of thinking process. The purpose of this study is to analyze teacher competence in constructing reading comprehension questions as well as looking at the possible problems faced by teachers when creating high level of questions. This study employed a descriptive research method. The subjects of this research were 12 teachers from 4 senior high schools in Padang selected by using a random sampling technique. The data were collected through tests and stimulated recall interviews (SRI). The findings of this research were that most teachers created understanding (C2) category questions which include in lower level of thinking in cognitive domain.