A Study Of Questioning Strategies In The Intermediate Oral Chinese Course In Universities Of Kazakhstan

Oral Chinese class focusing on a specific skill, has been one of the key courses in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages. To a certain extent, Oral Chinese proficiency represents the status of what the students know about Chinese and of their response in speech communications. Oral Chinese class aims to improve the students speech communicative ability and help them use Chinese freely in speech interactions by developing their thinking in Chinese through the training of their language sense. In the traditional Oral Chinese class, teachers guided the progression, leaving few teacher-student interaction opportunities. Students were restricted in their initiative in learning, resulting in few chances to use the language class. The aim of intermediate comprehensive course of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language is to develop students’ ability of utilization English in reality. Teachers may take effective teaching methods to create a lively classroom teaching atmosphere, and try to let the students speak more, thus eventually promote foreign language acquisition. Effective classroom questioning is one of the important ways to make classroom teaching smoothly and ensure teaching effectively.Linguistic studies abroad did many researches in class interactions and teachers’ questions, but few have been at home in relation to effective classroom questions. In light of this situation, this thesis investigated what and how teachers question in Intermediate Oral Chinese classroom. This study suggests that teachers act according to circumstances and lead students to willingly speak in Chinese by using kinds of questions.The results of this thesis implied that class teaching could be more effective by optimizing questioning strategies, stimulating everyone in the classroom, utilizing the timing of asking questions, adapting to teacher-student role switching and to accurate feedback. It hoped that this study can be of reference value to Intermediate Oral Chinese teaching in colleges and universities in Kazakhstan.