A Survey Study On Efl Pre-Service Teachers’ Perception On The Characteristics Of A Successful Efl Teacher

Abstract

In EFL context, there were still a limited number of researchers who have studied the pre-service teachers’ perception regarding the characteristics of successful EFL teachers. Therefore, to fill this gap, this research was intended to investigate the EFL pre-service teachers' perception on the characteristics of a successful EFL teacher. This study involved 52 pre-service teachers from English Education Department of a university in Yogyakarta, who have participated in a school internship program, in 2020. A Self-report Questionnaire adopted from Moafian, Ostovar, Griffiths, and Hashemi (2018) was used in this study. There were 44 items measuring seven sub- scale on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree. Findings showed that the majority of EFL pre-service teachers tend to consider attention as the most important characteristic in order to become a successful EFL teacher. However, the evaluation aspect became the aspect with the lowest mean. Those two aspects should be in line in its application to become or produce a successful EFL teacher.