Pre-Service English Teachers (PSTs) of Tarbiyah Fakulty of IAIN Syaikh Abdurrahman Siddik Bangka Belitung do their teaching practicum at high schools. Their supervising teachers play important role in evaluating, couching and mentoring them. In order to develop PSTs motivation and confidence during teaching and learning process, this study was conducted. Some supervising teachers from some high schools in Bangka regency and Pangkalpinang were interviewed. And the findings showed that PSTs should learn more about lesson planning, classroom management, and speaking skills. The result of the interviewed also gave a brief explanation about some subjects and courses that must be equipped by PSTs before they have their teaching practicum at schools.
Motivation and confidence in language teaching have always become interesting things to be observed. This study was intended to give a complementary views related to what factors might contribute to the ups and downs of how Pre-Service Teachers of English struggling to finish their teaching practicum at schools. Some supervising teachers at schools were requested to recall their memories and reopen documents about PSTs who ever conducted their teaching practice there. Their comments on how PSTs performed their instructions in the classroom might give solution to less-motivated and low confident PSTs. As a result, some courses at Tarbiyah Faculty which were given before PSTs having their teaching practicum need to be evaluated and revised.
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