Integration between course and community service becomes a breakthrough and challenge in college life. As a department that provides teacher training program, English Education study program of a private university in Jakarta tries to integrate the community service activity into course. This study aimed to investigate the pre-service teachers’ perspectives and measure their attitude, confidence, and anxiety through project-based instruction when they taught English to young learners at Ruang Publik Terpadu Ramah Anak (RPTRA) Akasia Tebet. There were twenty four pre-service teachers participating in this community service program as part of the assignments of the Curriculum and Material Development course. During the project, the pre-service teachers were asked to respond to a questionnaire and wrote their experiences in the community service program. The quantitative and qualitative research were employed to measure whether the pre-service teachers possessed a positive attitude, confidence, and low anxiety levels towards their first teaching experience. The statistical analysis helped to indicate the significance of the pre-service teachers’ attitudes, confidence, and anxiety levels before and during the program. From the results, it resulted the service program was able to prepare and train the pre-service EFL teachers to deal with designing a language course independently. The implications of the service program were certainly addressed to the pre-service teachers as well as the study program and the further research.

DOI: doi.org/24071/lltc.2018.03