Teaching English for the First Time: Frightening or Challenging?
Keywords:
practicum; method; media; pre-service teacherAbstract
To enhance the quality of teacher performance, teaching
practicum is required by the Teacher Training and Education Faculty at
university level as the pivotal compulsory course. The practicum is
expected to give positive unforgettable experience for shaping their
prior knowledge with contextual activities in the real school. This
memory affects their next teaching journey according to the people they
have met and interacted with during the program. Considering the
significance of understanding the students’ experience in performing
their planned lesson inside the class, this study aims to describe the
students’ ideas during the Teaching Practicum Program, especially the
effect of Teaching Media and Micro Teaching courses. Qualitative
design was applied to investigate the students’ responses through the
questionnaire and document analysis. The result indicates that teaching
practicum seems to take the students in a very new direction, and it
needs significant effort for adaptation to maintain better communication
with the internal school stakeholders, particularly school based mentors
and students. Further, media use for English instruction provides
benefits for the experience. This study implied that identifying teaching
experiences leads to comprehend possible challenges to achieve success.
https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.18.4.9
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