Teacher's questions in stimulating interaction in english classroom at MA Bilingual Krian

Classroom interaction is one of the primary factors by which learning is accomplished in classroom. Questions as part of teacher’s language in the classroom. All things that is related to the classroom interaction is turn out of the teacher’s questions. This study is aimed to investigate the teacher’s questions in stimulating the classroom interaction in English classroom. To answer the research question, some instruments used are: observation note and video recording. The research subject were the 29 students of XII Sains 5 and English teacher at MA Bilingual Krian. Findings showed the teacher’s questions that is used to stimulating the classroom interaction contains of two types. They are Display and Referential question. The Display questions showed commonly used in the classroom then Referential questions. The conclusion, the Display questions are the easier questions that can be used to get the student’s response because it need a short and simple answer from the students, whereas the Referential is much ask the students to answer in a long response based on their subjective information. Then, the specific function of these teachers’ questions is simply for keeping the classroom activities and stimulating the classroom interaction to enable the teaching to be conducted smoothly