CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES FOR ENGLISH TEACHERS

Abstract

Teachers' quality plays a paramount role in the improvement of quality of education. A way to ensure high quality teachers is through effective continuous professional development for teachers. This present study is aimed to explore how the EFL teachers develop their professionalism particularly in terms of pedagogical and professional competencies. The result shows that there are three main themes of professional development pursuits of EFL teachers comprising of self-initiated or individual, institutional, and non-institutional professional development activities. BACKGROUND Professional development (PD) in an academic setting is believed to be a means to sustain and to enhance the quality of education effectively with continuing changes. There has been a great interest recently in the discussion of teachers and professional development by several researchers, educational practitioners, and teachers