Investigating Self Professional Development in Teaching English: The Case of English College Teachers' Role as Models

Self Professional Development is one of the key factors in Foreign Language Learning, and therefore strategies in developing English professional college teachers should be seen as an important aspect of improving English lecturers' role as models. This research conducted a survey towards 30 EFL lecturers of PGRI Teacher Training College and IAIN Tulungagung, East Java, to highlight the foundations in improving efforts in bringing forth English Professional who try to develop the favourable results of the act of acquiring particular knowledge. The instrument--a questionnaire including three open ended questions--was created by reconsidering similar papers around skilled progress. This study reveals the fact that to be a professional English college teachers, one should develop nine professional efforts namely perceived professional identity as model; progress advancement demands, intellectual and fulfilled proficiency; factual intelligence and well-qualified accomplishments; professional networking; pedagogical content knowledge; perceived benefits of ICT use to students (perceived by the teacher); perceived benefits to the college teachers (self); engaging conducting academic research