(기말과제WEEK6-2) Things I disagree with you!

[11기신지영]

Midterm Eval‎uation(Week 6) (2)

-Problems of Look&Listen

Thank you for the commemt and ananlysis. I'll take the a) question

a) Does the teacher ask analytic (referential) questions where more than one answer is possible, or does the teacher only ask “known information” (display) questions? What kind of questions? Why these questions and not some other questions?

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<Classroom Specification>

Date : March 14, 2007

Class: 4th grade, 17 boys & 16 girls

Lesson: 1. Nice to meet you(2차시)

Language Focus :

1. How's the weather?

2. It's sunny/rainy/cloudy/windy/snowy

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The teacher asks mainly known information questions. In the data, out of 23 teacher's questions(total: 107 turns), there are 18 closed questions(78.26%) and 5 open ones. Let's have a look at the <figure 1>.

                                           q: a question with a verb

ncq: non clause question

teach/c : teaching and closed question

test/c : testing and closed question

test/o : testing and open question

The data doesn't look good. There are 14 testing questions and 9 of them are closed also. Because of these testing/closed questions, the students' answers (to those questions only) were 1.2 wps length only(n=20); for example, one, two, computer, monitor, etc or just a noise(시끌시끌, n=2). Then, why? Is it really that bad?

T: Look at the picture. A picture on page 6. Question. How many people?

S1: seven people/ S2: seven/ S3: seven

T: Let's count

T/SS: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven

T: Good

S1: eight

T: Question. How many Korean?

S1: one/ S2: four/ S3: two/S4: four?/S5: two

T: one? two?

S1: two/ S2: four

T: Good.

It's an order to start the class with from an open question to a closed one. (WHY CLOSED Q HERE?)'How many' is an absolute closed question, but it did his job well-to get the Ss' attention, to let them speak, to make them feel good about themselves. This role means a lot to the students to be confident and sure about themselves to answer to whatever questions the teacher is going to bring into the class. (It's not referential, I admit!)

T: What, question. What do you see?

SS: (각자 대답한다)

T: 뭐가 보여요?

S1: no food/ S2: television

T: Do you see a tv?

(컴퓨터 음악 소리)

T: A tv? or (모니터를 가리킴)

Ss: computer

T: monitor 모니터 monitor

Ss: monitor

T: What's this?

S1: uh, sofa?

T: Sofa? Do you see a keyboard here?

Ss: 아

T: What is it?

Ss: computer

T: 아, 아, 아. It's a computer.

(WHY OPEN Q HERE?)Now, they're ready for the open question, so the teacher starts with 'What do you see?(testing/open)'. Because Ss are ready and fully involved, they say a joke(for example, 'no food') or his(her) best(for example, 'television'). The teacher likes both but has to ignore the joke and uptake a 'tv' one. It was the teacher's immaturity not to marry S's answer to T's one(:>)(I said a TV monitor in the next class, by the way!).

-To be continued

[kellogg]

I don't see any DISAGREEMENT, Jiyeong!

[11기신지영]

Well. the point is it's not always OPEN and CLOSE form the begining. I had, no, the teacher has her reason to do it and it's good(FOR not being modest :>)

[kellogg]

No, it isn't always OPEN and CLOSED. In fact, there's a much MORE abstract principle at work here (which we've seen in Greeting and Meeting and Chatspace as well). The principle is that some questions are like matches, generating a fast answer that doesn't last long. Others are like firewood, and they take a long time to start but once they are burning they give off a lot of heat and they last a long time. We find that the "match" questions tend to have ONE answer, but "firewood" questions tend to have MANY answers. Think of "How are you?" (health) and "How are you?" (기분)

[11기신지영]

I now have a clear idea of OPEN and CLOSED. Thank you.