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Table 9 Frequencies of short and extended answers (n = 372), by question type and across case studies

From: Building science through questions in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) classrooms

Questions (codes)

CS1

CS2

CS3

Total

LOT questions

 Recall questions

10–51

6–8

26–1

42–60

 Recognizing and describing

5–18

1–14

22–1

28–33

 Guess what the teacher thinks

0–0

0–0

27–0

27–0

 Prior knowledge questions

1–0

0–2

24–2

25–4

    

122–97

HOT questions

0–45

0–35

3–7

3–87

Language-related questions

 Parlance questions

12–6

5–0

22–0

39–6

 Checking for lexical understanding

3–5

5–1

4–0

12–6

    

51–12

Total

31–125

17–60

128–11

164–158

  1. The first number in every cell represents the count of short answers (one-word) and the second number the count of long answers (longer than one-word)