Pre-Service Teachers’ Beliefs on Teaching English in Langsa

Teachers’ beliefs is the foremost important element to understand and improve the educational processes. The study of the concept teachers’ beliefs is the part of process to understand how teachers conceptualize their teaching. It is used to understand how the teachers approach their work; like the ideas or perceptions that they have about teaching and educating. It is important to understand the beliefs the teachers in operating their strategies in teaching. There are two classification of teachers’ beliefs in teaching: contructivist belief and traditional belief. The research problem of this study has two kind. First, to what extent is the pre-service teachers’ belief as research question number one and for research question number two is do they practice what they belief in teaching English. This study took quantitative descriptive research which aimed to analyze pre service teachers’ beliefs about teaching English. In carrying out this study, the writer observed the pre service teachers and giving questionnaire. The research was carried out in a month. The population was all of the seventh semester students of English Department IAIN Langsa who take Program Pengalaman Lapangan (PPL). The sample was 20 pre services English teachers that was choosen by purposive sampling and teaching at eight schools in Langsa. The result of quantitative data showed that most of the beliefs about teaching English held by pre service teachers are contructivist belief. From collecting the data, they believe contructivist beliefs is more appropriate to practice in teaching rather than traditional belief. Almost of pre service teachers practice the contructivist beliefs and has moderate scale in six schools, high scale of contructivist beliefs in one school, and low scale of contructivist beliefs is in one school as well. Most of them has 30%-90% in practicing constructivist belief. The highest score in applying contructivist is 92% in SMP Negeri 3 Langsa and the lowest score is 24,75% in SMP Negeri 8 Langsa.