Efl Pre-Service Teachers’ Experience In Designing Lesson Plan: A Narrative Inquiry

Abstract

This research intends to represent the stories about pre-service teachers’ experience in designing lesson plans that narrated by EFL pre-service teachers. This research was planned as narrative study. The participants of this research were Ms. Niki who was a preservice teacher at Senior High School and Ms. Diane who was a pre-service teacher at Junior High School. Both participants were pre-service teachers who taught the students English subject for a whole month and have experienced designing lesson plans for teaching. The data was collected through interviews and some documents. This research specifically retold the stories of the participants’ experience in designing their lesson plan and their emotions into a narrative story. The finding in this research shows that there is a process of lesson planning. In this case, Ms. Niki and Ms. Diane had the same process of lesson planning that obtained lesson plan during teaching internship. Also, this research has found some emotional aspects that are involved in designing the lesson plan process. However, Ms. Niki and Ms. Diane’s experience will be a valuable moment and lesson for pre-service teacher in education field in the process of becoming a teacher.