Teaching Efficacy of Universiti Putra Malaysia Trainee Teachers in Teaching Malay Language as a First Language

The objective of this study was to assess teaching efficacy of Teaching of Malay as a First Languagetrainee teachers prior to their teaching practice. The specific objectives were to determineteaching efficacy of the trainee teachers in terms of student engagement; instructional strategies;classroom management and teaching with computers in the classroom; satisfaction of the traineeteachers with their teacher training program and lastly to determine the attitude of the traineeteachers’ towards the teaching profession. Data was collected using questionnaire. The samplesize was 53. Findings indicate that majority of the respondents had a high level of confidence withtheir efficacy in terms of student engagement (Mean: 3.97, S.D: 0.29), instructional strategies(Mean: 3.93, S.D: 0.38), classroom management (Mean: 3.90, S.D: 0.32) and teaching withcomputers in the classroom (Mean: 3.83, S.D: 0.57). Pearson correlation showed that teachingefficacy and satisfaction with teachers education program were significantly correlated with eachother (r = 0.688, p 0.05). The relationship between these two variables was highly correlated andpositive. Results also showed that there are relationships between the attitude towards theteaching profession and teaching efficacy (r:-0. 231, p 0.05) but the relationships were negative.