For my independent task, I was asked to read a chapter about the skills of questioning. The main aim of this chapter was to show off the importance of questioning in our communication and why we need to use questions in order to communicate. There are many themes throughout this chapter. However, the themes that stood out to me where: the power of questioning, the background of questioning and the overall use of questions.

In this chapter,  it tells us clearly how questions work and why we need to use them throughout our language and in how we communicate to others. The chapter explains how a doctor is the one who always asked a variety of questions so they are able to understand what may be wrong with a patient. It also tells us how teachers and pupils ask questions to each other. Within this chapter, it states that some pupils within a classroom setting feel nervous and shy to ask a question to there teacher. This is because many children feel that they could be wrong or they might not fully understand what they are learning. “One mayor reason given by students for their reluctance to ask questions in class is fear of negative reaction from classmates” ( Dillion, 1988).

There was a few words and phrases in this chapter that i was not sure of.  I took it upon myself to look them up on a dictionary and find out the meanings so in the future, i will have a clear understanding of them.