Efl Pre-Service Teachers’ Experience In Designing Lesson Plan: A Narrative Inquiry
Abstract
This research intends to represent the stories about pre-service teachers’ experience
in designing lesson plans that narrated by EFL pre-service teachers. This research was
planned as narrative study. The participants of this research were Ms. Niki who was a preservice
teacher at Senior High School and Ms. Diane who was a pre-service teacher at
Junior High School. Both participants were pre-service teachers who taught the students
English subject for a whole month and have experienced designing lesson plans for
teaching. The data was collected through interviews and some documents. This research
specifically retold the stories of the participants’ experience in designing their lesson plan
and their emotions into a narrative story. The finding in this research shows that there is a
process of lesson planning. In this case, Ms. Niki and Ms. Diane had the same process of
lesson planning that obtained lesson plan during teaching internship. Also, this research
has found some emotional aspects that are involved in designing the lesson plan process.
However, Ms. Niki and Ms. Diane’s experience will be a valuable moment and lesson for
pre-service teacher in education field in the process of becoming a teacher.