Do Preservice Teachers’ Pedagogical Competence and English Skills Correlate to Their Willingness to Be Teachers?

English teacher is one of the main factors to students to master English. Their competencies will
lead them into professional teachers. Aiming to know the correlation between pedagogical and
English skills of the pre-service teacher to their willingness to be teachers, this research uses an
explanatory correlation design. Documents of pedagogical competence and English skills score
and questionnaire are the instruments of the research. The final semester students of the English
Department of University of Muhammadiyah Surabaya the participants of this research. The
result of the analysis shows that there is a significant correlation between pre-service
pedagogical competence and their willingness to be teachers. Meanwhile, there is no correlation
between pre-service English skills and their willingness to be. Then, there is no correlation
between pre-service pedagogical competence and English skill together with their willingness
to be teachers. However, from the findings, it can be concluded that pre-service teachers’ pedagogical competence affects their willingness to be teachers, that pre-service teacher is
suggested to master teacher competencies to increase their willingness to be teacher, especially
pedagogical competence.

Keywords: English Skills, Pedagogical Competence, Preservice Teacher, Willingness