From Education Policy to Class Practices: Indonesian Secondary EFL Teachers’ Self-Efficacy in Developing School-Based EFL Syllabi

Authors

  • Dairabi Kamil Islamic State College of Kerinci, Indonesia
  • Amirul Mukminin Faculty of Education, Jambi University Jl. Raya Jambi-Ma. Bulian KM. 15 Mendalo Darat 36361, Jambi Indonesia
  • Noor Lide Abu Kassim International Islamic University Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/ehe.2013.78

Abstract

The purpose of this quantitative inquiry was to examine the self-efficacy of Indonesian secondary school English as foreign language (EFL) teachers in developing a school-based EFL syllabus. The data were collected through a survey to 98 secondary school EFL teachers in the District of Kerinci, Jambi Sumatra, Indonesia. The data were analyzed through the Rasch Analysis (Linacre 2004, 2006). The results revealed that the teachers had a high-self efficacy in developing the syllabus. However, they tended to be less efficacious on theoretical tasks in the syllabus development and on tasks that were not part of their responsibility in previous curricula. In addition, this study also produced an instrument for measuring teachers’ self-efficacy in developing the syllabus that can be used for similar purposes in other contexts.

Author Biographies

Dairabi Kamil, Islamic State College of Kerinci, Indonesia

Dairabi Kamil is a faculty member  and  research manager at Center for Research and Community Service atIslamic State College of Kerinci, Indonesia. He holds a PhD in curriculum and instruction from the Institute of Education, International Islamic University Malaysia and an MS in TESOL from Monash University, Australia.

Amirul Mukminin, Faculty of Education, Jambi University Jl. Raya Jambi-Ma. Bulian KM. 15 Mendalo Darat 36361, Jambi Indonesia

Amirul Mukminin is a faculty member at Faculty of Education, Jambi University, Indonesia. He holds a PhD from Florida State University, the United States in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and MS in educational sciences from Groningen University, the Netherlands. He received a Fulbright scholarship to pursue his PhD and now is an Erasmus Mundus postdoctoral researcher at University of Groningen funded by the European Commission.

Noor Lide Abu Kassim, International Islamic University Malaysia

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Published

2014-05-09

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2013)

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