Teacher is the foundation in teaching and learning process who plays the important roles of primary and secondary elements in learning process. By having experience and competence, a teacher can transfer language to students well. A purpose of learning will not be reached without the role of a teacher with relevant competence. In second language teaching, especially in teaching Arabic to non-native speakers, it requires a professional expert as the purpose of second language teaching will not meet success unless managed by a teacher who has experience, has learned the teaching method, and has full comprehension in the characteristic of language he teaches.Therefore, the competence of Arabic teacher to non-native speakers is compulsory to have for anyone who teaches the language. There are at least three competences to have by an Arabic teacher to non-native speakers including, first, academic competence, that covers the language mastery learned for approximately four years during undergraduate study and includes the branches of linguistics, like Grammar, Morphology, Phonology, etc;. Second, professional education competence, that includes understanding and mastering various methods and teaching strategies of second language, learning children-related fundamental theory, like Education Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Education Evaluation, etc; and, Third, culture competence.
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