POLICY ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION IN INDONESIA
ABSTRACT: To understand the
state of the art of TEFL at elementary and junior secondary schools, a survey was
administered to two groups of EFL teacher respondents, namely 88 elementary
teachers in Jakarta and 200 junior secondary teachers who live in Jakarta and
West Java, and Banten provinces. They teach at either private schools (50.8%)
or public schools (49.2%), and 89.0 % of them have worked for more than fi ve
years. They are either public (47.4%) or private teachers (52.6%), and most of
them are female teachers (69.8%). The junior secondary teachers were participants
of the nine-day Teacher Certifi cation Program in September 2011, a mandatory professional
development scheme to qualify them as a professional teacher. The primary
school teachers are graduates of or are attending PGSD, i.e., four year
elementary school teacher education. The survey fi ndings are not generalizable
to the whole country, but they present a relatively comprehensive picture of
EFL teaching in the basic education units, i.e., elementary and secondary
schools.
Keywords: Teaching English as
Foreign Language (TEFL), Teacher Certifi cation Program, professional
development, teacher education
Penulis: Chaedar Alwasilah
Journal Code: jppendidikangg130066
