Source : Syamsinar.
2015. The Problems in Professional
Competence of Teachers in Teaching English Subject at Vocational High Schools. ELT
Worldwide. Vol. 2( 2)
The journal is generally focused on
seeking the teachers problems dealing with professional competence in teaching English.
The professional competence is one of the important competencies which must be
improved and mastered by the English teacher of vocational high school
especially toward mastering the subject matter of language aspects. Moreover ,
this researh is based on Regulation of the Minister of National Education of
the Republic of Indonesia No. 16/2007.
The research conducted by
using descriptive qualitative method and applied the purposive sampling in
choosing sample of research. It held at SMK I Somba Opu and SMKN 2 Somba Opu in Gowa,
South Sulawesi. The participants was the experienced and inexperienced teacher
from each school and eight students. The data were collected by using three
instruments: questionnaire, interview and observation checklist.
The findings to
this journal found several problem occure to English teachers
in professional competence
in teaching English
at vocational high schools in Gowa. There are, lack of pronounciation,
lack of vocabulary of special term for various departement, difficulty to
communicate the lesson by using English, difficult to acieve the basic
competence and learning objectives, lack of teaching planning, difficult to
select appropriate materials, difficult to adapt the material relevan to
student’s departement, difficult to update material from many sources, lack of
teacher development activities, not using information and communication
tehcnology for effective communication and lack of classroom management.
In conclusion, the English teachers' competence especially in
linguistic aspect, the major problem faced by the teachers is dealing with lack
of the vocabulary of special terms. Then,
the professional competence
of English teacher
at SMKN 1
Somba Opu and SMKN 2
Somba Opu were still low. Moreover, among the group of an experienced teacher,
it was found that an experienced teacher of English who comes from another
discipline is not the same with the real experienced teacher of English in terms
the professional competence.