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1. The Researcher’s Perception on Internship Program Course
Based o n the researcher’s experience during attending the Internship
Program Course, this course has an important role to train the ELESP pre-service teachers’ teaching skills. In general, the Internship Program Course is similar to
job training in which the pre-service teachers will be at a school in a certain period of time to develop and train to be English teachers. During the process of the
Internship Program Course, they are no longer university students, but they are the pre-service teachers who have an obligation to teach. During the Internship
Program Course, the pre-service teachers will be accompanied by a teacher advisor who gives the guidance and the feedbacks to them. Therefore, in the
implementation, the pre-service teachers will get assistances and tasks from the teacher advisor.
Furthermore, the researcher had a perception that the experiences in the Internship Program Course impacted
in altering the researcher’s motivation to be an English teacher. It was based on
researcher’s reflection that the experience which was gained during the Internship Program Course affected the motivation,
the perspective and alters the researcher’s behavior. Through this course, the
researcher had the opportunity to apply the knowledge of the teaching methods which were gained in the college and explored it.
However, based on the informal discussion and conversation with the researcher
’s colleagues, the researcher found that some of the pre-service teachers thought that Internship Program Course was only as a compulsory course that
should be taken without searching for the meaning and the purpose of this course.
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before attending the Internship Program Course. The stigma was that in the Internship Program Course, the pre-service teachers would gain some
administrative tasks and it would burden them. Then, it increased the worries for those who would take this course. In addition, another worry was that they had to
deal with the school students with the different personality. Furthermore, the researcher’s experiences during attending the Internship
Program Course helped to define the meaning of the Internship Program. The researcher learned the importance of this course in building the resea
rcher’s personality as an English teacher and the skills in teaching. In addition, in this
course, the researcher also interacted with the teachers and also the other pre- service teachers. It was also a positive side because the researcher was also able to
share the experience with them. Thus, new knowledge also constructed from a social interaction at the school environment. The last, the experiences during
attending the Internship Program Course impacted to the researcher’s motivation
to be an English teacher.
2. Short Description of the Research Participants
In this part, the researcher described each participant shortly. The descriptions of the participants were based on the interviews. The researcher
changed the name of participants into initial name as the ethical code of research.