Prompt is a teacher question or directive that elicits a student's response after they fail to initially answer correctly or completely. Effective prompting was demonstrated in a dialogue where the teacher first asked a follow up question when the student did not respond, and then further prompted the student to expand their answer by asking an additional related question. Prompting is a characteristic of effective questioning that encourages students to provide more thorough and accurate responses.

1. PromptBy: NawalSalimAlkathiri

2. Effective questioning has four characteristics:1- Frequency.2- Equitable distribution.3- prompting.4- Wait-time.

3. What is prompt?Prompt is a teacher question or directive that elicits a students response after the student has failed to answer or has given an incorrect or incomplete answer.

4. As an illustration, let’s look at a dialogue from Teri’s lessonTeri: now let’s go a bit farther . What other patterns do you see in the descriptions? Kim?Kim: (No response)Teri: How were the shipped, Kim?Kim: On ships.Teri: Yes, good, Kim! What ships, or whose ships?Kim: … In each case it was the ships from the parent country.

5. As we saw, when Kim didn’t respond correctly, Teri asked another question, then asked Kim to expand on her answer with an additional question.This is the essence of prompting.