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F. Definition of Terms
a. Teacher personal efficacy
According to Bandura 1977, Efficacy is the belief of self in the “capability to perform a given task. “ In the matter of teaching, there are two efficacies:
learners’ efficacy and teacher’s efficacy. Teacher’s efficacy consists of two beliefs. First is general teaching efficacy or belief about what teachers, in
general, can accomplish despite obstacles… Personal teaching efficacy is a judgement about the extent the teacher, personally, can affect student
learning.” Ashton and Webb, 1986 On this study, Microteaching Students’ teacher personal efficacy refers to
teacher personal efficacy. It is the students’ belief that they are capable to bring about change improve learner’s achievement.
b. Microteaching Students
Microteaching is used to describe a cluster of teacher education technology, which allows teachers, especially beginning teachers, to acquire, practice, or
refine teaching skills in a setting of reduced complexity Bush, 1968. Meanwhile, the word student means a person “who is enrolled for a course
of instruction in a college or university: an undergraduate.” Concise English Dictionary, 1994.
In this research, Microteaching students are the students of Sanata Dharma University who were enlisted in Microteaching Course year 20102011.
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c. Motivation to be English Teacher
Motivation, according to Stone and Nielsen 1982: p. 179, is a type of driving force
, appearing from either internal or external in human beings, which could drive human to do an action.
In this research, motivation to be teacher is some matters that drive Microteaching students to be teacher after finishing their study at Sanata
Dharma University. Meanwhile, the students’ teacher personal efficacy is the internal factor that could drive students to be English teacher.
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CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW
The focus of this study is the Microteaching students’ teacher personal efficacy and its influence on their motivation to be English teacher. In order to
conduct this research, reviewing the literature is taken to support this research. Afterward, having discussed the basic theories underlying this research, the
researcher would then elaborate those theories to illustrate the steps to gather the data needed.
A. Theoretical Description
The following would discuss the theories related to the study. Those theories are about the nature of teaching, the theory of microteaching, microteaching
course in the language education context, motivation, and self-efficacy.
1. The Nature of Teaching
According to Posner, as in Richards 1998: pp. 2-3, teaching has three understandings, namely didactic view, discovery view, and interactionist view.
Didactic view of teaching devotes the belief that teaching is transmitting knowledge or skill through clear explanation, demonstration, or discussion.
Discovery view of teaching concern that teaching is the developing of students’ knowledge through investigation, discovery, or observation. Next, interactionist
view of teaching sees teaching as a distribution of well-formed ideas through a
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