Display questions in English Language Teaching (ELT) are questions instructors ask students to check comprehension. Sometimes called elicitation, display questions help teachers gauge how much of the lesson or skill has been understood. Display questions most often are used to test comprehension of the key receptive skills, reading and listening, while asking them to respond through productive skills, speaking and writing. Teachers should think of display questions as a chance for students to demonstrate, or display, understanding of past material.
- Reading or listening sample
- Whiteboard or chalkboard
- Class of students
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Instructions
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Explain the main ideas of the text or listening sample. Go over any words or unfamiliar phrases that may be new to students, .
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Write these words on the board and try to elicit individual meanings from the class. The questions you ask to lead them toward the right answer are display questions.
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Ask the students to silently read the text, or play the listening sample.
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Check comprehension by discussing the display questions again after they have read the text or listened to the sample.
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Test productive writing skills. Using a display question or essay question relevant to the text, have the students respond by written answer.