Why Preservice Teacher Empowerment with Five Dimension Matters in Language Pedagogy Context

Abstract

Why Preservice teacher Empowerment matters in teaching language at teacher education program. Nevertheless, the conservative teaching practices often have the effect of disempowering students. The process of Student empowerment is the iterative process, which engages five integrated dimension such as knowledge dimension, learning dimension, skill and competence dimension, personal growth dimension, and the classroom community dimension. The aim of the paper is to figure out the preservice teachers, teacher educator, and mentor teacher' belief on why preservice teacher empowerment with five dimensions matters in teacher education program especially English Education. The research method is a case study which elaborates questionnaire, interviews, and document analysis to collect the data. The analysis found that the description knowledge dimension: types of knowledge that preservice teacher should have; learning dimension: learning interest, motivation, habit, and commitment; competence dimension: critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity; personal growth dimension: selfawareness, self-control, self-direction, self-reflection; classroom community dimension: connectedness, group norm, group rule, and reward systems. The implication of the findings relates to the process of preservice teacher empowerment that leads to sustainability of teacher education programs.