Pre-Service Teachers’ Perceptions About Language Choice In EFL Classroom

dr. roslaini, m.hum; cahya komara, s.pd., m.hum;

AGUNG PRANOWO. NIM: 1501055007. Pre-service Teachers’ Perceptions
about Language Choice in EFL Classroom. A paper, Jakarta: The University
of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr. HAMKA, 2019.
This study investigated English as a Foreign Language pre-service teachers’
perceptions about language choice (monolingual or bilingual) in the classroom.
This research paper aimed to explore pre-service teachers’ perceptions, which
influenced their preferences in choosing the language to be implemented in the
class they were teaching. Both close-ended and open-ended questionnaires
were used to gather the data. The result of close-ended questionnaire were 61%
responses in positive agreement to the use of bilingual. It was followed by two
items in open-ended questionnaire to get more detailed perception, which were
asking about the choice between monolingual and bilingual and pre-service
teachers’ feelings when using Indonesian during teaching practice. The
findings revealed that the condition of the students who still were inadequate in
comprehending English vocabulary influenced the pre-service teachers’
perceptions that the use of Indonesian was still needed, and it was resulting that
they had positive feelings (Comfortable, neutral, fine, helpful) to bilingual
implementation in EFL classroom