Abstract
This article reports a study, which aims to evaluate the EFL teachers’ performance of teaching in the English Education Department of Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang (Unimus). The study was conducted to find out how competent the English lecturers/university teachers in the Department are in conducting an English Language Teaching (ELT) program in the classroom. A case study was employed to five teachers who taught the fifth-semester students in the Academic Year of 2017/2018. Through an observation during their teaching and learning process by involving four observers and through a questionnaire distributed to the 13 students in the fifth semester. The study shows the different results of teachers’ performance from both the teachers’ and students’ perspectives. Based on observation, it is revealed that the teachers’ performance in ELT program does not show a satisfactory result yet. The teachers tend to use unvarying methods and focus on certain students without knowing that some of them have learning problems. Meanwhile, from the questionnaire distributed to the students, it shows that the teachers have good competencies in conducting an ELT program in the classroom in which one of the indicators is seen from the personality of the teachers.
Highlights
Teachers’ performance has an important role in determining the quality of teaching
This study aims to evaluate the teachers’ performance of the teaching and learning process in the classroom, with regards which kinds of qualities and competencies of the teachers in ELT program, in Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang, are the best
Novice and experienced teachers could be seen from the classroom experience they have in ELT program
Summary
Teachers’ performance has an important role in determining the quality of teaching. The quality of teaching is influenced by the existence of good teachers in managing and handling the teaching and learning process in a classroom so that it creates effective teaching. There are some previous studies about teachers’ performance conducted by researchers. Ndungu, et al (2015) and Jones (1998) found that the success of teachers’ performance is determined by lesson preparation prepared by the teachers before performing in the class which determines the effectiveness of the teaching and learning process in the classroom. Other studies were conducted to know the qualification of good teachers from the students’ perception.
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