SUMMARY
A sense of preparedness for teaching is an essential factor in the field of teacher preparation as it is a crucial construct in pre-service teachers’ professional growth towards becoming accomplished teachers. Accordingly, this paper aims to explore pre-service English language teachers’ sense of preparedness for teaching within Indonesian contexts. A cohort of final-year students of a university-based English language teacher program in Yogyakarta was included as the participants. In this mixed-methods study, an online questionnaire and interview were the research instruments employed to collect the data. There were 106 students responding to the questionnaire and 31 students participating in the interviews. Findings showed that the pre-service teachers’ levels of preparedness varied according to the teaching tasks. Based on the survey, the task of technology integration obtained the highest score. This implies that the participants appeared to feel comfortable with using technology in their teaching practices. However, their overall sense of preparedness indicated lower confidence. The interview results provide further explanation of the survey findings. The descriptive analysis revealed some key issues, including academic and personal factors, which potentially influenced pre-service teachers’ sense of preparedness for teaching.