The purpose of this study was to examine the questioning styles in middle school environmentology textbook in terms of frequency, type, and placement of questions. It was also to analyse and to compare the kinds of scientific inquiry processes elicited by the questions in the topics of textbooks.
The instrument was the Textbook Questing Strategies Assessment Instrument (TQSAI) developed the Cooperative Teacher Preparation Project, University of California.
The average number of questions per topic was only 1.09 and the ratio of questions to sentences was 2.5%. Most of questions were in explanatory place(75%). Nearly 90% of experienced questions types were reasoning or application. The frequencies of non-experiential question were higher than those of experiential question. In action, there were much kinds of question-styles.

• 허만규(부산대학교 생물교육과) | Man-Kyu Hur (Dept. of Biological Education, Pusan National University)
• 허홍욱(부산대학교 생물교육과) | Hong-Wook Huh (Dept. of Biological Education, Pusan National University)
• 오광중(부산대학교 환경공학과) | Kwang-Joong Oh (Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University)