AN ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS' PEDAGOGICAL COMPETENCE IN TEACHING ENGLISH FOR YOUNG LEARNERS

This research aims to analyze the teachers’ pedagogical competence which concerns more on how the teachers able to manage the classroom and use the instructional media in teaching English for young learners. Being a teacher is not as easy as the people think, because “the teachers play an important role in what they do, and how they do in developing their own professional knowledge and practice” (Loughran, 2006, as cited in Livia, 2010: 1). They also need to have teaching skills or pedagogical competence (Hotaman, 2010). Therefore, this research focuses on the teachers’ pedagogical competence which consists of classroom management and the use of instructional media