1、Teacher questions give students the impetus and opportunity to produce language comfortably without having to risk initiating language themselves。Is very scary for students to have to initiate conversation or topics for discussion. Appropriately pitched questions can give more reticent students an affective“green light”and a structured opportunity to communicative in their second language。
Questioning strategies for interactive learning
The most important key to creating an interactive language classroom is the initiation of interaction by the teacher。However non-directive your teaching style is，the onus is on you to provide the stimuli for continued interaction。These stimuli are important in the initial stage of a classroom lesson as well as throughout the lesson。Without such ongoing teacher guidance ，classroom interaction may indeed be communicative，but it can easily fall prey to tangential chitchat and other behavior that is off-course from the class objectives。
3、Teacher questions give the instructor immediate feedback about student comprehension。After posing a question，a
2、Teacher questions can serve to initiate a chain reaction of student interaction among themselves 。One question may be all that is needed to start a discussion；without the initial question，however，students will be reluctant to initiate the process。
More than two decades ago，the work of Flanders（1970）and more specific to foreign language teaching，of Gertrude Moskowitz（1971,1976）give us some categories for observation of classes known as the FLINT（Foreign Language Interaction） model
Interactive Language Teaching I： Initiating Interaction
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Foreign Language Interaction Analysis
One way to begin to look at your role as an initiator of interaction in the classroom is to look at yourself（and other teacher）in terms of a well-known taxonomy for describing classroom interaction.
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How is a model like this helpful in developing interactive language teaching？There are several practical uses。
One of the best way to develop your role as an initiator and sustainer of interaction is to develop a repertoire of questions strategies。
在第二语言课堂，学习者不需要太多的发起和维持语言的工具， 你的问题可以提供必要的交流的步骤，在一个互动课堂中，合理的 问题充满着不同的作用。（摘自Christenbury&Kelly1983和 Kinsella1991）
• First，it gives you a taxonomy for observing other teachers • Second，it gives you a framework for evaluating and improving your own teaching • Third，the FLINT model，especially the first seven categories ，helps to set a learning climate for interactive teaching