Islamic Undergraduate Students' Perceptions toward Teacher's Basic Pedagogical Competences at English Tutorial Class

A teacher’s professional development is something really significant for any institution, including a private international language center in an Islamic university. This study was aimed at investigating students’ perceptions toward teachers’ professional development particularly dealing with their basic pedagogical competences such as asking question, giving feedback, making variation, explaining, opening and closing the lesson, guiding small group discussion, managing class, and teaching individuals [1]. It was a survey study in a form of descriptive qualitative evaluative research design. The qualitative data were collected by using questionnaire and then were analyzed by interpreting and evaluating them objectively. The result of the data shows that teachers of international language center had good basic pedagogical competences. Among those eight pedagogical competences, the fourth skill of explaining was dominant. 19 undergraduate students chose “often” (number 4 at Likert scale) column. Implications and suggestions related to the research findings were made as part of an effort to improve the teaching practices in the language center.