课堂提问是教学活动中常用的教学手段,是提高教学质量的关键因素。合理有效的提问能激发学生的求知欲,拓展学生的思维,提高教学的效果。通过结合教学实践,分析了英语课堂提问的必要性和现存问题。从优化教学过程中提出有效问题、启发学生回答问题和对学生的回答进行评价的策略三个方面论述了优化初中英语课堂提问的策略。 Classroom questions are commonly used in teaching activities of teaching methods, is to improve the quality of teaching a key factor. Reasonable and effective questioning can stimulate students ’curiosity, expand students’ thinking and improve teaching effectiveness. By combining teaching practice, this paper analyzes the necessity and existing problems of English classroom questioning. This paper discusses the strategies to optimize the English classroom questioning in junior middle schools from three aspects: putting forward effective questions in the course of optimizing teaching, enlightening students to answer questions and evaluating students’ responses.