Secondary-School Teachers' Questioning Activities in Learning-Teaching Process

In this research, it is aimed to determine what kind of questions teachers and students ask in learning-teaching process. In the effort, qualitative research technique was used. The teachers of Duzce Vocational High School in Duzce city center make up the research group. For this aim, observation was performed in the lessons of 13 teachers. As data-collecting tool, semi-structured observation forms were used. Data was analyzed by using content analysis technique. In the consequence of the analysis, basic and sub-categories were made up and the categories' percentage and frequency were given. As a result of the research, it is seen that teachers ask questions more than students, teachers and students ask questions about the lesson or extra-curricular, the extra-curricular questions asked by the teachers are for acquiring information, their questions about the lesson mostly consist of the ones requiring intellectual ability to process, remembering the acquired information and receiving feedback and controlling. Extra-curricular questions of the students are mainly toward finishing the lesson and their questions related with lesson are toward understanding the lesson.