Pre-Service Teachers’ Perception of Their Competence and Their Readiness for Teaching Profession

Abstract

This research objective was to discover the pre-service teachers’ perception of their competence and their readiness for teaching profession, and measure the correlation between pre-service teachers’ perception of their competence and their readiness. This research used quantitative as a method in conducting the research. The participants of this research were 67 undergraduate students of Universitas Islam Lamongan who had taken practice real teaching program. The instruments used in this research were questionnaires. Due to the regulation of social and physical distancing, the researcher distributed the instruments via Google Form links to the respondents in collecting the data. The results of the questionnaires were analyzed by describing the highest and the lowest of average scores. Meanwhile, the result of correlation was interpreted by looking the significance criteria. The result of this research showed that the pre-service teachers perceived their competence positively the most at the ethical standards and values and least at the professional knowledge. They also showed their readiness was in good category. They perceived positively towards their competence in all areas and ready for teaching profession. However, the result of significance value (2-tailed) shows .258 which is higher than .05. So, it means that there was no correlation between pre-service teachers’ perception of their competence and their readiness. Suggestions proposed on the basis of the result are addressed to EFL pre-service teachers as well as other researchers who wish to pursue related topics in future research. Those suggestions concern about the importance of maintaining and/or developing preservice teacher competence and readiness to face the real teaching as profession and the necessity of further studies on the same or other factors as they are affected to the teaching competence and readiness for teaching profession.