Socratic Questions Used by the Sixth Semester Students of English Department of FKIP Nommensen in Seminar Class

Abstract

The objectives of this study are to find out the kinds of socratic questions used by the sixth semester students of English Department of FKIP Nommensen in seminar class and to find out the dominant one. The research design is a descriptive qualitative research by applying a case study approach. Descriptive analysis is used as a problem solving procedure on the served things by describing the research objects when the research is done based on the facts found. The data of the research are the students‟questions while the seminar is going on. To get the data accurately, they are collected by recording the dialogue using audio-visual when they were presenting their proposals in the class. After collecting the data, the writer used the technical steps of analyzing the data as follows: 1) transcribe the dialogue, 2) identify thesocratic questions, 3) classify the type of question based on the socratic question, and 4) count the occurance of each type. After analyzing the data, the writer found that there are 8 kinds of socratic questions used by the students. Question about Viewpoint does not exist while the presentation is going on. The most dominant one isquestions that probe information, reasons, evidence, and causes.