Exploring EFL Teachers’ Perception of Pedagogical Task

Abstract

Pedagogic competence is one of the competences that should be owned, comprehended, and mastered by teachers and lecturers to conducting professional job in Indonesian context and Bintan Regency particularly. It can be seen from their ability to help students to practice target language through pedagogical task. Therefore, the purpose is to explore the cognition, beliefs, and practice of state junior high school of English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers of pedagogical tasks in the classroom. The focus is on the cognition of the EFL teachers of pedagogical task in their classroom; the beliefs of EFL teachers of pedagogical task in the classroom; the practices of EFL teachers of pedagogical tasks in the classroom. The study is descriptive quantitative with survey method. The data will be collected through questionnaires for pedagogical task. The data will be analyzed with Likert scale through interpreting the data of cognition, beliefs, and practice of pedagogical task gathered from questionnaires. The findings showed that the teachers had good enough cognition, positive point of view and reasons to or not to use the pedagogical task in their EFL classroom. The teachers have had awareness of pedagogical task to try this in their teaching practice. Keywords—EFL teacher; pedagogical task; teacher’s competence