Dissertation deals with  teacher’s questions in the EFL
classrooms in the third grades of Žilina grammar schools. The
author introduces various taxonomies of questions and question
functions in the context of EFL teaching-learning whose
substantial goal is the development of students’ communicative
competence as well as all four language skills. Speaking skill
is a typical productive skills, which is best developed  in
classroom communication. In the research part of the
dissertation the author interprets students’ perception and
responses to the teacher’s referential and display questions
exploiting the data and research findings found on the basis of
mixed qualitative-quantitative research methodology.