Institutional Repository | Satya Wacana Christian University: An Analysis of How Teaching Practice Students Acquired Pedagogical Knowledge to Teach English in Secondary Schools

AN ANALYSIS OF HOW TEACHING PRACTICE STUDENTS
ACQUIRED PEDAGOGICAL KNOWLEDGE TO TEACH ENGLISH
IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS1
Eko Winarsih

Abstract
This study will share about the experience on how Teaching Practice (TP)
students learn and obtain the knowledge about teaching English to students in several
secondary schools in Salatiga (Junior High Schools and Senior High Schools). TP, as
a compulsory subject in the English Department of Satya Wacana Christian
University, is the time where the students can apply the learning theories they have
learnt before. However, for many of them, TP was their first experience to teach ‘real’
students in a formal academic institution. As a result, there might be many things that
were still new when they started to do the TP.
Because of this issue, the research attempted to answer the question: How do
student teachers acquire pedagogical knowledge in their Teaching Practice? To
answer the research question, a qualitative research was done through some
interviews with twenty ED students who have done TP in some secondary schools.
The result of this paper shows that the participants develop their pedagogical
knowledge during their TP program in some ways, like by participating actively in
teaching, learning from mentor teachers, doing observation, interacting with other

student teachers, imitating their mentor teacher and other student teachers, and
learning from their teaching reflection.
Keywords: pedagogical knowledge, Teaching Practice

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Part of this paper has been published in the FBS-LTC UKSW 6th International Seminar- Research in
Teacher Education: What, How and Why?”