Questions have the power of engaging learners in Higher Order Thinking Skills, including creative and critical thinking. Using this tool in the business English language training helps learners become more confident and more autonomous language users.
Measures of Dispersion and Variability: Range, QD, AD and SD
The Question Is Your Answer
1. The Question Is Your Answer
Csilla Jaray-Benn
BESIG Online Conference 15 June 2013
2. Outline
1. The nature of questions
2. Flipping the roles
3. The Question Formation Technique™
4. Benefits for the learner
The Question Is Your Answer – Csilla Jaray-Benn – Business English Services - 2013
4. The hidden power of questions
Divergent
Creative
Critical
Independent
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The Question Is Your Answer – Csilla Jaray-Benn – Business English Services - 2013
5. Questions in business context
Leadership
Knowledge
Problem-solving
Teamwork
The Question Is Your Answer – Csilla Jaray-Benn – Business English Services - 2013
6. Questions
by nature
Grounds for
creative thinking
Questions
in use
Source of
stress and anxiety
The Question Is Your Answer – Csilla Jaray-Benn – Business English Services - 2013
7. Pass the question on
to your learner
The Question Is Your Answer – Csilla Jaray-Benn – Business English Services - 2013
9. Four rules
Elaborated by the Right Question Institute
As many
as you can
Do not
discuss
No
statement
Write it
down
The Question Is Your Answer – Csilla Jaray-Benn – Business English Services - 2013
10. The prompt is a statement
The Question Is Your Answer – Csilla Jaray-Benn – Business English Services - 2013
11. Focus on an image
Via http://www.berndnaut.nl/works.htm
The Question Is Your Answer – Csilla Jaray-Benn – Business English Services - 2013
12. Learner’s questions
“Is this a performance?”
“Is this work done by an artist or by a
team?”
What do you think about the meaning of
this cloud?’”
The Question Is Your Answer – Csilla Jaray-Benn – Business English Services - 2013
13. Open and closed questions
“Is this a performance?”
“How would you describe this
performance?”
“Is this work done by an artist or
by a team?”
“How can this piece of art be
created by a team?”
“What do you think about the
meaning of this cloud?”
“Can you see any meaning
behind this cloud?”
The Question Is Your Answer – Csilla Jaray-Benn – Business English Services - 2013
15. Different type of connections
Debate
The Question Is Your Answer – Csilla Jaray-Benn – Business English Services - 2013
16. Focus on a statement
Scientists never dream
The Question Is Your Answer – Csilla Jaray-Benn – Business English Services - 2013
17. What makes a good focus
Brief and simple
Objective
Personalised
Stimulates thinking
The Question Is Your Answer – Csilla Jaray-Benn – Business English Services - 2013
19. Build a framework
Concrete professional tasks
The Question Is Your Answer – Csilla Jaray-Benn – Business English Services - 2013
20. The learner will be able to…
Creative thinker
Independent
L2 user
L2 identity
Conversation
leader
Accurate
speaker
TRANSEFERABLE
SKILLS
The Question Is Your Answer – Csilla Jaray-Benn – Business English Services - 2013
21. Questions are TOOLS for thinking.
The Question Is Your Answer – Csilla Jaray-Benn – Business English Services - 2013
22. “You can’t learn unless you ask questions.
Unless you ask questions, nobody knows what
you are thinking or what you want to know.”
D. Rothstein & L. Santana
The Question Is Your Answer – Csilla Jaray-Benn – Business English Services - 2013
23. There is NO bad question.
The Question Is Your Answer – Csilla Jaray-Benn – Business English Services - 2013
24. The Question Is Your Answer – Csilla Jaray-Benn – Business English Services - 2013
25. References
Goodey, C. (2013). “Using yes-no questions to get people talking”.
http://cgoodey.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/using-yes-no-questions-to-get-people-talking/
Jaray-Benn, Cs. (2012). One-to-one Dynamics. TESOL France Annual Colloquium. Paris
http://besenglish.com/2013/05/03/one-to-one-dynamics/
Jaray-Benn, Cs. (2013). “Collaborative Creative Learning”. TESOL France Spring Day.
Strasbourg
Rothstein, D. and Santana, L. (2011). Make Just One Change. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
Education Press
Szesztay, M. (2013). “The Power of Questions”. IATEFL Conference Liverpool
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