The research aims at investigating the Language Education Policy in supporting the SEA Teacher Project at the Faculty of Education, Tadulako University. It has become one of the Teacher Training Colleges in Indonesia selected to be a partner institution of SEA Teacher Programs, with other Teacher Training Colleges from universities of three Southeast Asian countries, including Philiphines, Thailand, and Vietnam. The research employs a qualitative approach with the main data collection instruments, including Observation, In-dept Interviews, and Documentation. The research sites are at study programs within the Faculty of Education involved in the collaborative programs with the SEA Teacher Project. And the informants selected consist of six key informants. They are informants from the student side, study program representatives, and faculty leaders. Furthermore, the data of documentation and observations were taken from study program offices and from the teaching and learning activities in the classroom. The research findings show that the language education policy has supported and motivated the selected students to use instructional language in English with important related technical terms. The recruitment systems of the SEA Teacher program are improved gradually. The SEA Teacher Management has learned a lot from their students’ experience and their own. The students have got better overseas teaching experiences from target universities and schools where they were placed during SEA Teacher programs.

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