Also, they might not want to offend the teacher (I don’t understand = ‘you’re not doing your job’). Asking students if they understand is pointless, as they could just lie and say ‘yes’ (nobody wants to hold the lesson up and admit they don’t understand). Yes, checking understanding effectively is useful thing to do. The simple answer is, of course … yes and no. So what’s going wrong here? Surely the idea of checking students have understood your instructions or a new piece of language without asking ‘Do you understand?’ is a useful thing to do in the classroom? Why does it sometimes produce such absurd language? Is the skill of formulating good ICQs and CCQs such a difficult thing to master? Interestingly enough, the same teacher commented in the feedback discussion later that he felt like he was patronising students asking this question, but that he knew he ‘had to ask an ICQ’ (Instruction Check Question).Īn online discussion recently threw up other gems for ‘CCQs’ (Concept Check Questions), including ‘Can you cancel a lake?’ (to check understanding of ‘lake’). This is something I recently heard a teacher on a pre-service training course say to a group of (mildly bewildered) students.
( Black Dyke Mills 2 by Tim Green CC-BY-2.0) You need to answer these questions…Do you need to answer the questions? Ok, so you need to read the text and answer the questions.
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