STUDENTS' PERCEPTION TOWARD THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MICRO TEACHING SUBJECT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PRE-SERVICE TEACHING
RIFA WAHYUNI, NIM 1830104067, Thesis, entitled: "Students’ Perception toward the Effectiveness of Microteaching Subject on the Implementation of Pre-service Teaching", English Teaching Department, Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training, UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar. The problem of this research is ineffectiveness of Micro Teaching subject on the implementation of Pre-Service Teaching. The purpose of this reseach is to find out students’ perception toward the effectiveness of microteaching subject on the implementation of pre-service teaching of seventh semester students of English Department of UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar in 2022/2023 Academic Year. The method of this research is qualitative research with case study design.There were 6 informants in this research who already took micro teaching lectures at 2022/2023 academic year using purposive sampling technique. In this research there were two instruments, the researcher as the main instrument and the interview guide as a supporting instrument. The techniques of data collection in this study were in-depth interview and used other supporting tools such as interview guides and smarthphone to record conversations during interviews. To test the validity of the data, the researcher used time triangulation to confirm and explore the data in more detail. Furthermore, to analyze the data, the researcher uses data reduction, data display, drawing conclusion and verification. The results showed that there were several Students’ Perception toward the Effectiveness of Micro Teaching Subject on the Implementation of Pre-service Teaching, The perception were: 1 ) Positive Perception , they were: a)Microteaching is good for students’ self provision before doing pre-service teaching. b) Microteaching helps student to prepare themselves before doing preservice teaching. c) Microteaching is effective for opening student insight, d) Micro Teaching help student in how to explain, open and close lesson correctly ; 2) Negative Perception , they were: a) Microteaching is less effective for pre-service teaching, b) Class management when microteaching is different with pre-service teaching, c) The lesson plan format of microteaching is different with pre-service teaching.