Realization and Development of the English Language Teachers’ Pedagogical Competence: A Principal Component Analysis

The present study aimed at realizing and developing a scale and a model of English language teachers' pedagogical competence (ELTPC). By reviewing the related literature and adapting Thomas's (1987) language teacher competence, TESOL (2010) standards of professional EFL teachers, and teaching skills and model of pedagogical competence developed by Olsson, Martensson, and Roxa (2010) resulted in a 5-point Likert scale questionnaire consisting of seven constructs, namely preparation, management, teaching, subject mastery, assessment, attitude, and belief with 87 variables. The questionnaire underwent the scrutiny of experts' opinion and reliability estimates, which resulted in an instrument of 60 variables for the constructs. Next, the constructs were validated with 320 high school English teachers through a principal components analysis carried out via exploratory factor analysis.