Developing EFL Teacher Education Curriculum: A Needs Analysis-based Study At an Indonesian Private Teacher Training College

Abstract

The present study reports on how an existing EFL Teacher Education curriculum of private Teacher Training College in Ciamis, West Java, Indonesia, is revised and developed through needs analysis. The newly-adapted quality standart, the Indonesian Qualification Framework (the so-called KKNI), and impetus of language teaching pedagogy promoting critical literacy have caused the necessity to change the curriculum.The students and alumni of the Department of English Education, considered as the ‘users’, participated in the survery. The subjects were approached to conveniently give inputs to the existing curriculum that had been established several years before. Their inputs covered not only the revisions if the content or substance of courses but also the suggested teaching strategies facilitated in the syllabi of the new curriculum. In the surver, new courses related to the current trends of critical thinking and English for global and intercultural communication were also offered to choose. The study suggests that the existing curriculum needs revising and developing with reference to its feasibility and the subjects’ needs.