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English Education Journal 
 

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The Performances of ESP Lecturer’s Pedagogical and Professional 

Competences in Teaching Speaking Class (The Case Study of 

Semarang University)  
 
Rahmi Nur Baity W, Fahrur Rozi 

 
Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia  

Article Info 

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Article History: 

Received 20 
September 2019 
Accepted 16 January 
2020 

Published 15 
September  2020 

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Keywords: 
Pedagogical 
competence, 

professional 
competence, ESP 
learners, speaking 

performance. 

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Abstract
 

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Pedagogical and professional competence in the ESP teaching and learning 

process is important because achieve goals of national education, teachers and 

lecturers are required to be a professional by having those competences. This 

research aimed to analyze the lecturers’ pedagogical and professional 

competence in teaching ESP in speaking class in order to explain and analyze 

the relation of performance of it towards ESP learners’ performance in 

speaking skill. Qualitative case study was employed in order to investigate the 

performances of pedagogical and professional competences of English lecturers 

in teaching ESP and how is the relation between those performances towards 

learners’ speaking performances. The findings showed different performances 

of pedagogical and professional competence in very good and good categories. 

Then, there was positive relation between performances of pedagogical and 

professional competence towards ESP learners’ speaking performances since 

mean values of ESP learners’ speaking performance passed the minimum score 

of ESP subject. Practically, the result of this study gave benefit for educators 

and everyone who get involved and interested in the performance of lecturers’ 

pedagogical competence to make it as knowledge to develop it in English 

education, especially in ESP context. 

 
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INTRODUCTION 

 
Teachers and lecturers are required to be a 

professional by having certain standards of 

competencies in order to achieve goals of 

national education. Houston & Howsam in 

Puspitasari et al (2016) described competence as 

adequacy for a task or as possession of required 

knowledge, skills, and abilities. Furthermore, the 

government has established a law that is 

regulated for teachers and lecturers’ 

competences. It is structured on Law Number 14 

the Year 2005 regarding teachers and lecturers, 

article 10 paragraph 1 being a teacher or a 

lecturer must have teachers’ competences. They 

are pedagogical, personal, professional, and 

social competence. 

Irmawari, Widiati, and Cahyono (2017) 

stated that pedagogical competence deals with 

teaching skills including teaching techniques, 

curriculum development, and assessment; 

personality competence related to an 

individual’s personalities which can support 

teachers’ jobs positively; social competence deals 

with the ability to socialize and communicate 

well with others; and professional competence 

deals with the mastery of English as a subject-

matter and professional development as 

teachers.  

Pedagogical and professional competence 

get much attention because of two reasons at 

least.  First, those competencies directly relate to 

students in the teaching and learning process. 

Second, it is because all we know is that the 

output of education should aim at student 

improvement on achievement and to improve 

the student performance, it begins with the 

teachers’ competence (Armour-Thomas, et al; 

Ferguson in Puspitasari et al, 2016).  

Irmawati et al. (2017) found that 

pedagogical competence has become one of 

crucial aspects to be investigated because it deals 

directly with how the teachers run the teaching 

and learning process which aims to help students 

to learn the target in achieving the learning 

objectives. Meanwhile, mastering knowledge 

about English itself would be meaningless for 

English teachers or lecturers if they cannot help 

learners to learn the target language and it can 

be achieved by having good pedagogical 

competence. Furthermore, pedagogical 

competence should be the main discipline of 

educational institutions for English language 

teachers or lecturers. Kiasi et al (2018) stated 

that teachers not only should be aware of what 

to teach, but also, they should be aware of why 

and how the subjects should be taught.     

The other competence that becomes 

crucial aspects to be investigated is professional 

competence. Professional competence is 

competence related to the ability to master 

knowledge (Rahman, 2014). Under the 

professional competence, one can understand a 

set of professional and personal skills required 

for successful teaching. It would not be 

inappropriate to state that those ones can be 

called professionally competent teachers, who 

carry out teacher communication and various 

teaching activities on a high level, consistently 

achieving excellent results in training and 

educating the students. Professional competence 

is needed to ensure their work as becoming a 

teacher is not an easy work. Moreover, with all 

administrative kinds of stuff they must 

accomplish, they need to be aware of their 

professions including all the obligation and 

consequences. Thus, it is highly necessary for 

the teacher to have sufficient subject matter 

content, knowledge, in this case, that the text, 

when they deliver their materials.  

Unfortunately, the performance of 

pedagogical and professional competences at the 

university level do not comply with reality when 

they taught English for Spesific Purposes (ESP). 

English for Specific Purposes (ESP). Mackay 

and Mountford (1978) described ESP as English 

language teaching which is generally used to 

refer to the teaching of English for a clearly 

utilitarian purpose. ESP implies special aim. 

This aim may determines the precise area of 

language required, skills needed. The main 

characteristic of ESP that is different with EGP 

is specifically needed in all of the aspects in ESP 

depends on the subject category.  

ESP expects that students can improve 

their English ability to support their academic 



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life and prepare them for working life in the 

future after graduating from university. 

Additionally, it is expected to give the language 

and communication requirements whether it is 

spoken or written form in a particular 

professional field. This field-specific language 

communication training enables participants to 

master relevant communication and professional 

skills and, in so doing, meet the needs of the 

industry locally and internationally. 

The fact in the reality reveals that there 

are some English lecturers who do not have 

good pedagogical and professional competencies 

that leads to the poor teaching quality since 

without having good competencies in teaching 

will influence the teaching result. 

Hence investigating how pedagogical and 

professional competence in the ESP teaching 

and learning process is important. Knowing how 

well the lecturers performed pedagogical and 

professional competence will give sights of what 

parts need to be improved, straightened, added 

and eliminated in order to the goals of teaching 

and learning can be achieved properly. 

This research aimed to analyze the 

performances of ESP lecturers’ pedagogical and 

professional competence in teaching speaking 

class in order to explain and analyze the relation 

between performance of it towards ESP learners’ 

performance in speaking skill. Speaking skill is 

interesting skill to be explored since it is related 

to ESP course which contains more practice 

than theory. 

 

METHOD 

 

Qualitative case study was employed in 

order to investigate the performances of 

pedagogical and professional competences of 

English lecturers in teaching ESP and how those 

performances provide impact on learners’ 

speaking performances. 

This study focused on investigating the 

performance of lecturers’ pedagogical and 

professional competence and how those 

performances provide impact on learners’ 

speaking performances in learning ESP at 

Universitas Semarang (USM). 

This research involved three ESP lecturers 

in Semarang Universiy (USM) as research 

participants namely Mrs. Dina, Mr. Davi and 

Mrs. Hita (pseudonym). ESP lecturers’ 

pedagogical and professional competences and 

learners’ speaking performances in speaking 

class were the unit of analysis of the study.  

Methods of data collection in this research 

were observation, interview, and document 

analysis. The data was gathered through 

observation is in video form and observation 

sheet and the data from the interview were in 

audio form and interview transcription. Then 

document analysis helped the researcher to 

gather information related to the focus of this 

study. This study involved four types of 

instruments including observation, in-dept 

interview, site document analysis and speaking 

test. 

 

FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION 

 

Findings 

This section presents findings of three 

research questions in this study related to the 

performances of ESP lecturers’ pedagogical and 

professional competences in speaking class and 

the effect of ESP lecturers’ performances of 

pedagogical and professional competences 

towards learners’ speaking performances.  

Claimed of pedagogical and professional 

competence values followed Permeneg PAN and 

RB Nomor 16 tahun 2010 tentang Jabatan 

Fungsional Guru dan Angka Kredit, it can be 

determined as to the percentage and credit score 

percentage as listed in table below: 

 

Table 1. The Percentage and Credit Score 

Percentage 

Result of 

PK Guru 

Category Credit Score 

Percentage 

91 – 100 Very good 125 

76 – 90 Good 100 

61 – 75 Fair 75 

51 – 60 Poor 50 

≤ 50 Bad 25 



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Good Performance of Pedagogical 

Competence 

Good performances of pedagogical 

competence were supported by the findings of 

class observation data and interview.  

The researcher adopted pedagogical 

competence checklist and calculation from 

Peraturan Kementrian Pendidikan Nasional, 

Direktorat Jendral Peningkatan Mutu Pendidik dan 

Tenaga Kependidikan Tahun 2010, Pedoman 

Pelaksanaan Penilaian Kinerja Guru for gathering 

classroom observation data. It covers seven 

aspects for pedagogical competence namely (1) 

understanding the characteristics of students 

from physical, moral, spiritual, social, cultural, 

emotional, and intellectual aspects; (2) control of 

learning theories and principles of learning that 

educates; (3) developing a curriculum, 

determining learning goals, learning materials 

and assessment instruments that are appropriate 

for students; (4) utilizing information and 

communication technology for the sake of 

learning; (5) facilitating the development of 

potential learners to actualize their potential; (6) 

communicating with students both inside and 

outside the learning process; (7) conducting the 

assessment and evaluation processes and 

learning outcomes. 

The researcher adopted pedagogical 

competence checklist and calculation from 

Peraturan Kementrian Pendidikan Nasional, 

Direktorat Jendral Peningkatan Mutu Pendidik dan 

Tenaga Kependidikan Tahun 2010, Pedoman 

Pelaksanaan Penilaian Kinerja Guru for gathering 

classroom observation data. It covers seven 

aspects for pedagogical competence namely (1) 

understanding the characteristics of students 

from physical, moral, spiritual, social, cultural, 

emotional, and intellectual aspects; (2) control of 

learning theories and principles of learning that 

educates; (3) developing a curriculum, 

determining learning goals, learning materials 

and assessment instruments that are appropriate 

for students; (4) utilizing information and 

communication technology for the sake of 

learning; (5) facilitating the development of 

potential learners to actualize their potential; (6) 

communicating with students both inside and 

outside the learning process; (7) conducting the 

assessment and evaluation processes and 

learning outcomes. 

 After calculating the data of classroom 

observation based on the formula above, the 

researcher found that Mrs. Dina got 92.85 for 

PKG value with very good category while Mr. 

Davi and Mrs. Hita got 85.71 and 82.14 with 

good category in performance of pedagogical 

competence. In other way, the average result of 

pedagogical competence for these three lecturers 

is in good category with 86.90. This finding was 

consistent to Lao, Kaipatty and Jeronimo (2017) 

who conducted a study on teachers’ competency 

in teaching English at SMA Negeri 2 Kupang.  

Findings of interview data for the first 

aspect namely controlling the characteristics of 

learners from physical aspect, the spiritual 

moral, social, culture, emotional and 

intellectual, the lecturers stated that direct 

communication was the key of this aspect. 

Direct communication could be form by talking 

to the learners, getting response of the learners, 

having discussion with the learners and 

observing the learners. The lecturers said that by 

doing types of direct communication, they could 

understand and control the characteristics of 

learners from various aspect. 

The second question that is related to 

creating learning theories and principles of 

learning that educates the learners got answers 

from those lecturers who said that the learners 

were the key of this aspect. The learning theories 

that educates depended on learners’ ability, 

teaching materials, teaching methods and 

students needs since they agreed that learning 

that educates learners was something gave effect 

to the learners. The learners felt happy, enjoyed 

learning process were the indicator of learning 

theories and principles that educates learners. 

Policy of faculty became an answer for 

third questions in developing a curriculum 

related to the subject matter. The lecturers said 

that in determining learning goals, learning 

materials and assessment instruments that were 

appropriate for depended on request from the 

faculty, and students need.  



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Findings of interview data for the fourth 

aspect namely utilizing information and 

communication technology for learning 

purposes the lecturers answered information and 

communication technology was used as a tool to 

make some exercise such as making video by 

their gadget. Then creating Whatsaap group for 

communication purposes was one of the way 

lecturers used the information and 

communication technology for learning 

purposes. They claimed teaching and learning 

process should be follow the development of the 

information and communication technology so 

the learners could achieve goals easily. 

Related to facilitating the development of 

potential learners to actualize their potential 

aspect, the lecturers had same answers of this 

question. They advised the learners to join an 

English group of their campus called by EPIC. 

By joining that group, the learners were 

expected to actualize, explore their English 

abilities.  

Then for the next question which related 

to communicating effectively, empathetic, and 

manner with the learners, the lecturers stated 

that their learners could contact them through 

media social and had a meeting with the 

lecturers. They were very welcome to their 

learners who wanted to have a talk either related 

to academic matters or personal life. One of 

them said that good communication with the 

learners was an important part in teaching and 

learning process. 

Related to the next question about 

conducting the assessment and evaluation 

processes and learning outcomes, the interview 

data showed that types of assessment and 

evaluation instruments depended on learning 

materials. Then, all those lecturers used the 

results of learners’ performances for their 

reflection in order to improve learning methods, 

learning material and make better learning 

process, for next semester. Additionally, one of 

three lecturers said that the results of learners’ 

performances were used as the data for her 

research and information to the other lecturers. 

Findings of interview data for the last 

aspect namely taking an action to improve the 

quality of reflective learning showed that the 

lecturers asked feedback from the learners and 

other lecturers. Additionally, one of the lecturers 

stated that utilizing technology maximally could 

be the way to improve the quality of learning. 

 

Good Performance of Professional 

Competence 

Outstanding performances of professional 

competence were supported by the findings of 

class observation data, and interview. 

In gathering classroom observation data, 

the researcher adopted professional competence 

checklist and calculation from Peraturan 

Kementrian Pendidikan Nasional, Direktorat 

Jendral Peningkatan Mutu Pendidik dan Tenaga 

Kependidikan Tahun 2010, Pedoman 

Pelaksanaan Penilaian Kinerja Guru. It covers 

two aspects for professional competence namely 

(1) mastering the material concept structure and 

scientific mindset that supports the subjects 

being taught; (2) developing professionalism 

through reflective action. 

After calculating the data of classroom 

observation, the researcher found that Mrs. Dina 

and Mr. Davi got 100 for PKG value with very 

good category while Mrs. Hita got 87.50 with 

good category in performance of professional 

competence. In other way, the average result of 

pedagogical competence for these three lecturers 

is in good category. 

This finding was consistent Ukur, Purba, 

and Wau (2017) who conducted a study on 

improvement of teachers’ professional 

competence through academic supervision of 

artistic model in SMA Negeri Lubukpakam, 

Deli Serdang. 

 

Good Performances of Learners’ Speaking 

Good performances of learners speaking 

test were supported by mean values of each class 

which passed 60 score as the minimum score for 

ESP. Speaking test of this study was design in 

order to measure learners’ performances of 

speaking skill especially for pronunciation, 

syntax, vocabulary, content, and presentation 

aspects in company presentation scope. Mean 

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Mr. Davi class got 69.78 as the mean values and 

Mrs. Hita got 77.33 for mean values of her class. 

This finding was consistent to a study conducted 

by Kusrini (2012). 

 

Good Findings of Instructional Document  

Good findings of document analysis was 

supported by the calculation of syllabus and 

lesson plan document. Aspects in syllabus 

analysis are amount of syllabus, process in 

arranging syllabus, completeness of syllabus 

components, standard competence and basic 

competence, materials, learning process, time 

allocation, learning resources and assessment. 

While the aspects of lesson plan analysis are 

identity, indicators, learning goals, learning 

materials, learning media and sources, learning 

method, learning activity, assessment. 

According to the calculation of document 

analysis, the lecturers got different values but 

had same category namely good category. Mrs. 

Dina got 79.54 of 100 scale in good category for 

syllabus analysis and 81.25 for lesson plan 

analysis in good category. Meanwhile, Mr. Davi 

got 72.7 of 100 scale in sufficient category for 

syllabus analysis and 86.1 for lesson plan 

analysis in good category. The last lecturer, Mrs, 

Hita got 70.45 with sufficient category and 81.25 

for lesson plan analysis in good category.  

 

Discussions 

Findings of class observation, interview, 

learners’ speaking test, and document analysis 

above were interpreted specifically in order to 

figure out the clear explanation about the 

performances of ESP lecturer’s pedagogical and 

professional competences in teaching speaking.  

 

Good Performance of Pedagogical 

Competence 

Discussion for good performance of ESP 

lecturer’s pedagogical competence gathered from 

class observation data, interview, and document 

analysis. 

According to observation and interview 

data, pedagogical competence covered seven 

aspects namely (1) understanding the 

characteristics of students from physical, moral, 

spiritual, social, cultural, emotional, and 

intellectual aspects; (2) control of learning 

theories and principles of learning that educates; 

(3) developing a curriculum, determining 

learning goals, learning materials and 

assessment instruments that are appropriate for 

students; (4) utilizing information and 

communication technology for the sake of 

learning; (5) facilitating the development of 

potential learners to actualize their potential; (6) 

communicating with students both inside and 

outside the learning process; (7) conducting the 

assessment and evaluation processes and 

learning outcomes. As mentioned in findings 

before that the minimum score for each aspect 

was one and for the maximum score for each 

aspect was four. Findings of classroom 

observation data showed the Mrs. Dina got very 

good value; it was 92.85 from 100 scale with 

very good predicate. Meanwhile both of the Mr. 

Davi and Mrs. Hita got good values, they were 

85.71 and 82.14 from 100 scale with a good 

predicate. These aspects of pedagogical 

competence were the same line with Sukanti et 

al in Astuty (2015), Puspitasari, Anugerahwati 

and Rachmajanti (2016), Arisman, Hmara and 

Weda (2017) Lao, Kaipatty, and Jeronimo 

(2017). The discussion of three lecturers below 

was analyzed for each aspect for pedagogical 

competence performances that mentioned 

above. 

 For the first aspect, understanding the 

characteristics of students from physical, moral, 

spiritual, social, cultural, emotional and 

intellectual aspects, the three lecturers did not 

perform completely and got score three from 

score four as the highest score for each aspect in 

observation data. Those lecturers only identified 

some students not for every student and only for 

some aspects namely physical, moral, social, 

cultural and intellectual aspects. In 

understanding students’ characteristics, the 

lecturers identified their students’ characteristics 

inside the class and outside the class. Based on 

interview data the ways of lecturers in 

understanding the characteristics of students 

from physical, moral, spiritual, social, cultural, 

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in the same line. They observed students directly 

and it could be seen from introduction in the 

first meeting, having discussion, and students’ 

responses in teaching and learning process. 

Lecturers took a note and used information 

related to students’ characteristics to support 

teaching and learning process and achieve goal 

of education. This statement was similar to what 

was stated by Sudjana and Rifai (2007) who said 

that the education goal basically led the students 

to the changes of behavior both intellectual, 

moral and social. 

The second aspect, controlling the 

learning theories and principles that educate 

students, three lecturers got four as highest score 

of this aspect in observation data.  In this aspect, 

the lecturers were asked to apply various of 

teaching approaches, strategies, methods 

creatively based on lecturers’ standard 

competence in order to encourage te students to 

study hard. This aspect was in the same vein 

with Borg in Kazungu (2018) who stated that 

pedagogical competence was lecturers’ ability to 

know how create an environment that is 

conducive for learning. 

Creating conducive environment for 

learning could be reached by applying creative 

teaching method and strategy since students 

could explore more teaching materials by using 

various teaching approaches, strategies, and 

methods so the goal of teaching and learning 

process could be reached. Interview data showed 

that Mrs. Dina assumed learning theories dan 

principles that educates students were theories 

and principles should be based on student’s 

needs. Meanwhile, Mr. Davi and Mrs. Hita said 

that learning theories and principles was process 

of someone who have not do something right to 

do something right. Both of these lecturers 

agreed that during the process, the lecturers used 

interactive teaching and learning process in 

order to students felt comfort with the 

atmosphere of the class so they could get 

learning materials easily. In sum, both of these 

lecturers said that students’ response or feeling 

was the important thing in teaching and learning 

process. 

Then third aspect was developing 

curriculum. In this aspect, three lecturers got 

different scores. In observation section, Mrs. 

Dina and Mr. Davi got score three and Mrs. 

Hita got quite low score for this aspect, it was 

score two. Developing curriculum meant that 

lecturers could make syllabus based on goals of 

curriculum and using lesson plan according to 

goals of teaching and learning process. 

Developing curriculum also asked lecturers to 

choose, arrange, and creating teaching materials 

based on students’ needs. As stated in 

Basturkmen in Saadia (2013), choosing, 

arranging, and creating teaching materials based 

on students’ needs was one of five key roles of 

ESP lecturers which stated by Evans and John 

(1998) namely ESP lecturers as a course designer 

and material provider. Based on interview data, 

the lecturers got curriculum from their faculties 

then they arranged syllabus and determined 

learning materials, assessments and teaching 

methods based on curriculum and students’ 

needs. This lecturers’ answers were on the same 

line of a research that conducted by Nababan in 

Dewi (2015) that stated in designing ESP 

materials should follow a syllabus that is 

underpinned by students’ needs in their present 

or future studies.   

The fourth aspect in performance of 

pedagogical competence was conducting 

teaching and learning activity that educates 

students. In observation section, three lecturers 

got different scores for this aspect. Mrs. Dina 

and Mrs. Hita got highest score for this aspect; it 

was score four. Meanwhile, Mr. Davi got score 

three for this aspect. In this aspect, lecturers 

were asked to conduct an activity that help 

students’ learning process. An activity that 

educates students meant a series of action or 

steps towards achieving goal of education. In 

this step, lecturers conducted learning activities 

based on syllabus and lesson plan, 

communicated new information to students 

according to students’ ability, faced students’ 

mistakes as part of teaching and learning process 

and conducted learning activities according to 

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Understanding and actualizing students’ 

potential was the fifth aspect in performance of 

pedagogical competence. Scores for this aspect 

were score four for Mrs. Dina and score three 

for Mr. Davi and Mrs. Hita. Based on this 

aspect, the lecturers were required to analyze 

students’ potential academic and identify their 

student’ potential development by learning 

program that supported students to actualize 

academic potential, personality and creativity. 

This aspect was in the same line with a research 

that conducted by Sukanti et. al in Astuty (2015) 

which stated that one of the way to perform 

pedagogical competence was to actualize 

students to get various potentials. According to 

interview data, these lecturers had same answer 

in understanding aand actualizing students’ 

potential. They noticed students’ potential in 

teaching and learning process and proposed 

students to join an English club in their campus 

called by EPIC. 

The next aspect was communicating with 

students both inside and outside the learning 

process. All of three lecturers got the highest 

score for this aspect in observation section. 

Communication between lecturers and students 

was the important thing in teaching and learning 

process. Communication between lecturers and 

students could be formed in teaching and 

learning process. This aspect reflected a research 

of Bojovic (2006) that stated ESP lecturers need 

to have considerable flexibility, it meant that as 

lecturers they have to be flexible with their 

students in communication way either inside of 

the class or outside of the class. Additionally, he 

stated that the lecturers needed to be willing to 

listen to learners, take interest in activites that 

students were involved in since all of those 

included the form of communication between 

lecturers and students. Therefore, the lecturers 

were really welcome to students who want to 

communicate with them and the lecturers either 

inside or outside of the class. Then for 

communicating with students, lecturers allowed 

students to have talk such as eye to eye 

discussion or using media such as social media. 

The last aspect came from assessment and 

evaluation. Mrs. Dina and Mr. Davi got highest 

score for this aspect, while Mrs. Hitta got score 

three for this aspect in the observation section. 

Assessment and evaluation aspect were an 

important part of teaching and learning process 

since to measure how effective learning system 

that included teaching materials and teaching 

methods that was applied by the lecturers. As 

stated, Dudley-Evans and John (1998) who 

stated that one of five key roles of ESP lecturer 

were ESP lecturer as a evaluator. Evaluator in 

the five key roles of ESP lecturer was a process 

in assessing students, courses, and materials 

based on curriculum during teaching and 

learning process and was held in the middle and 

end of teaching and learning process. Based on 

interview data, those three lecturers conducting 

assessment and evaluation instruments based on 

students’ needs and learning materials. The 

lecturers’ answer was a reflection of a research 

that conducted by Khalid (2016) which said that 

needs assessment of students was considered as 

an important domain under ESP scopes. The 

lecturers not only used the student’s assessment’ 

results as final score of students but also used 

that result for assessment analysis and 

improvement of learning process. 

 

Good Performance of Professional 

Competence 

Discussion for performance of ESP 

lecturer’s professional competence gathered 

from class observation data and interview. 

According to observation and interview data, 

professional competence covered two aspects 

namely (1) mastering material, structure, 

concept, and mindset of scientific support of 

teaching subjects; (2) developing professionalism 

through reflective action. 

The first aspect of professional 

competence was mastering material, structure, 

concept, and mindset of scientific support of 

teaching subjects. Three lecturers got score four 

as highest score of this aspect in observation 

process. This aspect required lecturers to do 

professional indicators as a lecturer. They were 

1) the lecturers mapped standard competence 

and basic competence for the subjects they 

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considered difficult, did the planning and 

implementation of learning, and estimate the 

allocation of time required; 2) the teacher 

included appropriate and current information in 

the planning and implementation of learning; 3) 

the teacher prepared materials, plans and 

implements learning that contains appropriate, 

current information, and which helps students to 

understand the concept of learning material. 

Based on interview data, to reach this aspect, the 

lecturers did reflection during teaching and 

learning process. They divided difficult materials 

then improved teaching method for the difficult 

materials in order to make the difficult materials 

were not difficult anymore then the lecturers 

related teaching materials to real life in order to 

make students understood the teaching materials 

easily.  

The second aspect of professional 

competence was developing professionalism 

through reflective activities. Both Mrs. Dina and 

Mr. Davi got score four as highest score and 

Mrs. Hita got score three of this aspect in 

observation process. For this aspect, lecturers 

were asked to reflect on their own performances 

continuously and utilize the results of reflection 

to improve professionalism and follow 

professional development through learning from 

various sources, the teacher also utilized ICT in 

communication and professional development if 

possible. To reach this aspect, based on 

interview data showed that lecturer conducted a 

self-evaluation specifically, completely, and 

supported by examples of self-experience. 

Additionally, the lecturers had a learning 

journal, input notes from peers or the results of 

an assessment of the learning process as 

evidence that illustrates its performances and 

utilized evidences of their performance 

descriptions to develop the planning and 

implementation of further learning in the 

professional development. Moreover, lecturers 

conducted research, develops innovative works, 

follows scientific activities (e.g. seminars, 

conferences).  

 

 

 

Good Performances of Learners’ Speaking  

 Speaking skill was chosen to be tested in 

this research since the standard competence in 

the syllabus stated that learning materials 

contained 40% material and 60% practice. 

According to results of students’ speaking 

performance above that stated students’ 

speaking performances in three lecturer classes 

passed the minimum score, it was 60. The 

average values of students’ speaking 

performance in three lecturer classes were 78.6 

for Mrs. Dina, 69.8 for Mr. Davi, and 77.3 for 

Mrs. Hita. This speaking test was conducted in 

the right way since the oral presentation was one 

of important part of speaking skill in order to 

prepare the students to face job life after they 

graduate from the university.  

These results indicated that there were 

positive relation between performances of ESP 

lecturer’s pedagogical and professional 

competence with learner’s speaking 

performances. 

 

Good Findings of Document Analysis 

 Syllabus became the important thing in 

teaching and learning process. According to the 

calculation of document analysis above, three 

lecturers got good predicate in conducting 

syllabus and lesson plan. Mrs. Dina got score 

79.4. Mr. Davi got score 72.7, then Mrs. Hita 

got 70. 45.  

It revealed that those three lecturers could 

be considered as lecturers who have good 

pedagogical and professional competences. The 

syllabus of three lecturers above contained the 

criteria for ESP syllabus aspects which stated by 

Robinson in Dewi (2015). It was stated that 

syllabus should contain students’ needs namely 

ESP learning goal, students’ input related to 

what they can do after finishing their ESP course 

and in syllabus that was conducted by those 

three lecturers contained materials related to 

what students can do after finishing their ESP 

course even though there were some aspects 

were missed in that syllabus.  

 

 

 



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CONCLUSION 

 

This research has revealed the answers for 

three research questions in this research. In first 

research question, this present research analyzes 

the performances of lecturers’ pedagogical 

competences in teaching speaking in ESP class. 

It is found that the performances of three 

lecturers’ pedagogical competences are in very 

good predicate with value 92.85 for Mrs. Dina 

and good predicate for Mr. Davi and Mrs. Hita 

with values 88.88 and 83.33. Those values are 

analyzed by seven aspects that cover 

pedagogical competence namely (1) 

understanding the characteristics of students 

from physical, moral, spiritual, social, cultural, 

emotional, and intellectual aspects; (2) control of 

learning theories and principles of learning that 

educates; (3) developing a curriculum, 

determining learning goals, learning materials 

and assessment instruments that are appropriate 

for students; (4) utilizing information and 

communication technology for the sake of 

learning; (5) facilitating the development of 

potential learners to actualize their potential; (6) 

communicating with students both inside and 

outside the learning process; (7) conducting the 

assessment and evaluation processes and 

learning outcomes. 

In the second research questions, the 

performances of lecturers’ professional 

competences in teaching speaking in ESP class 

were analyzed by the researcher. It was revealed 

that the performances of three lecturers’ 

professional competences are very good values 

for Mrs. Dina and Mr. Davi with very good 

predicate, while Mrs. Hitta is in good values, 

with a good predicate. Those values were 

analyzed by two aspects that cover professional 

competence namely (1) mastering material, 

structure, concept, and mindset of scientific 

support of teaching subjects; (2) developing 

professionalism through reflective action. 

In the last research question, the ESP 

lecturers’ pedagogical and professional 

performances had positive relation with learner’s 

speaking performances. It was found that the 

averages values on learners’ speaking 

performances for three lecturers pass the 

minimum score. The values were analyzed by 

five aspects of speaking assessment especially 

oral presentation namely pronunciation, syntax, 

vocabulary, content, and presentations. 

Based on observation, result and 

discussion of this research, the researcher found 

limitation namely methodological limitation. It 

is researcher’s difficulty to interview the lecturers 

right away after the researcher did observation, 

do not take longer time to do interview after 

doing observation because of the lecturer’s 

activities, the interview could not hold after the 

observation. To overcome this limitation, the 

researcher used videos, pictures while doing 

observation to memorize the activities in 

observation in order to make lecturers easy to 

answer the interview questions. 

 

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