A NEED OF ENGLISH TEACHER PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE IN 21ST CENTURY

Abstract

Professional competence of an English teacher in this century has many problems, such as
lack of English teacher development program and the English teacher problems in using
technology. In literature, professional competence indicators review is very lack and
research reported about a need analysis of teacher professional competence was not found.
Moreover, it does not related to notion of 21st century. So, the objective of the research is to
find out the need analysis of professional competence of English teachers in the 21st century.
The method of the research is qualitative research. The interview was conducted to English
teachers at a Vocational High School was collected to get the data. The interview data will
be analyzed by three steps: reduction, display and conclusion. The need of English teacher in
professional competence are (1) Being up to date towards English subject; (2) Empowering
things related to develop curriculum; (3) Developing materials based on the students and
school condition and situation; (4) Conducting a research; (5) Promoting ICT skills; and (6)
Learning and implementing the educational foundation. Those need analysis can be useful to
improve the quality of English teacher in the 21st century education in Indonesia.