On Strategies of Developing Student Questioning Ability in the English Class of Vocational College

Abstract

The student’s creative spirit and ability is regarded as one of the educational ideas of the eighth English curriculum reform to which the student’s questioning ability is usually prior. However, the student’s questioning ability is low in the procedures of English teaching of the elementary education in China, which becomes an obstacle to the implementation of new educational objectives of the English curriculum. To enrich this study field, referring to Zone of Proximal Development Theory, Constructivism Theory and Second Language Acquisition Theory, a twelve-week experiment study have explored five strategies used for fostering student questioning ability: (1) Consciousness strategy enforces students’ questioning awareness; (2) Environment strategy offers relaxing atmosphere; (3) Model strategy leads students how to raise questions; (4) Time strategy offers enough time; (5) Evaluation strategy encourages further questioning.