AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS’ PEDAGOGICAL COMPETENCE IN TEACHING ENGLISH AT SMA NEGERI 3 BANDA ACEH

This research tries to analyze the teacher’s pedagogical competence in Teaching English. There are six pedagogical competence that need to be mastered by a teacher. They are understanding the subject in English lesson, the ability in understanding the students, the ability in setting and implementing lesson plan and learning strategy, the ability in creating educational and dialogical learning which is interactive, utilizing the learning technology, and evaluating the learning outcomes. Thus, this research focus on the teacher’s pedagogical competence that consist of the six components. This research uses a descriptive qualitative approach and the researcher used observation, questionnaire, and document analysis as the method of collecting data. The objective of this research is to know whether the English teacher has all components in pedagogical competence and to know the students’ perpective on the teacher’s pedagogical competence. The result of research is the English teacher has all of the components of the pedagogical competence. Based on the observation, documentation analysis, and the data of questinnaire shows that the English teacher has the abilty in understanding the subject in English lesson, the ability in understanding the students, the ability in setting and implementing lesson plan and learning strategy, the ability in creating educational and dialogical learning which is interactive, utilizing the learning technology, and evaluating the learning outcomes.