Abstract:
In Indonesia, English is taught formally in every school. The government
also makes a rule about the teacher who teach English subject. She/he must be the
one who had English education background. Actually, there are some English
teachers who didn’t have English education background. The objective of this
study is to describe the differences between the English teacher graduated from
English Education Department and Non-English Education Department especially
in teaching reading. The English teachers graduated from English Education
Department is the teacher who takes educational English in university to complete
their study. In contrary, English teachers graduated from Non-English Education
department is the teacher who takes education in Non-English Department.
This research can be categorized as the descriptive qualitative research
because the researcher describes the result of the research. In this study, the
researcher chooses two English teachers with different study background. The
first English teacher is graduated from English Education Department, while the
second English teacher is graduated from Islamic education Department. The
instruments of this research are researcher as the main instrument and observation,
interview, questionnaire, and teacher observation form as the secondary
instrument. The researcher makes observation to two English teachers and uses
the teacher observation form. Then the researcher gives the questionnaire to their
students and gives the interview sheet to the teacher. After the data were collected,
the researcher analyzed them. The researcher used descriptive analysis to analyze
the result of the observation, interview, questionnaire, and teacher observation
form. Then the researcher used triangulation technique to cross checked those
result.
Based on the result, there are no significant differences between those
teachers. Both of first English teachers graduated from English Education
Department and Non-English Education Department used Indonesian too much in
teaching learning process. They also explained the material in understandable
way. However, the first English teacher is resourcefulness, more creative, and
pronounces the English words correctly. So, the first English teacher had more
characteristics of good language teacher than the second English teacher. It can be
concluded that the first English teacher is better than the second English teacher.