EXPLORING THE EXPERIENCE OF NOVICE ELT LECTURERS TO BUILD THEIR PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY BASED ON TRI DHARMA PERGURUAN TINGGI

Tri Dharma Perguruan Tinggi is the three pillars which are one of the components in achieving the vision and mission of each institution. Tri Dharma Perguruan Tinggi consists of Education and Teaching, Research, and Community Service. Every lecturer is required to carry out the Tri Dharma Perguruan Tinggi, especially for novice ELT lecturers who are someone incoming in new cultural education in English Language and they don’t have lecturer certification. The competence of lecturers determines the quality of the implementation of the Tri Dharma Perguruan Tinggi to build professionalism. This research aims to explore the novice ELT lecturers’ experience in fulfill the three pillars of Tri Dharma Perguruan Tinggi to build their professional identity. Accordingly the objectives were to find out how is the experience of novice ELT lecturers to build their professional identity based on the Tri Dharma Perguruan Tinggi. Qualitative research in the form of narrative is used as a research approach. The data were analyzed using thematic analysis. Data were collected through an interview with the participants of this study were the four novice ELT lecturers in English Education Department in PGRI Adi Buana University Surabaya. The findings show that from the pillar one there is learning system, thesis supervisory and teaching material. In the pillar two there is research and publication. And the pillar three finds their experience in a group of community service.