Raising English Teachers’ Competencies in Writing for Publication via Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Programme

Abstract

Education is an important factor in building the nation, and the qualified teachers are supposed to be the key component in realizing the quality of education. The Decree of the Minister of State Apparatus Empowerment and Bureaucratic Reform No. 16 year 2009 on Teachers’ Functional Position and Credit Points is an important policy because ‘scientific publication’ is used as one of the instruments to promote teachers’ careers to higher position levels. In assisting teacher to cope with the scientific publication, collaborative professional development is proposed to be established between English department of teacher training and institution and association of EFL teachers in Indonesia.