Reflective practice: The experience of pre-service EFL teachers in teaching English

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Reflective practice: The experience of pre-service EFL teachers in teaching English
The role of pre-service teacher in the educational field has been many times concerned among the researchers. Pre-service English teacher in particular, needs to improve their teaching skill in order to achieve the high quality of teaching English. One of the ways to achieve better teaching-learning is utilizing reflective practice. Reflective practice is the teacher’s opportunity to contemplate what he/she has done in their teaching in order to find the solution toward the problems appear. This study aimed at knowing the elements of reflection realized by pre-service EFL teachers in their teaching. Thus, two pre-service EFL teachers were involved to give the information of their experience in utilizing reflective practice during their teaching practice program. The participants were the university students of English Teaching Program at one of the universities in Indonesia. The participants’ stories through open-ended questionnaire, interview, and document analysis in this narrative study. Furthermore, the Interactive Model was used to analyze the data. It is found that the English teachers need to be more experienced in order to be able to realize all the elements of reflection properly.
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Author 1
Author (Last name, First name)	Azizah, Umu Arifatul
Affiliated institution (University)	Sebelas Maret University
Country	Indonesia
Email address	[e-mail]
Department & Rank	English Education Department
Corresponding author (Yes/No) Write only one corresponding author.	Yes
Author 2
Author (Last name, First name)	Nurkamto, Joko
Affiliated institution (University)	Sebelas Maret University
Country	Indonesia
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Department & Rank	English Education Department
Corresponding author (Yes/No)	No
Author 3
Author (Last name, First name)	Drajati, Nur Arifah
Affiliated institution (University)	Sebelas Maret University
Country	Indonesia
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Department & Rank	English Education Department
Corresponding author (Yes/No)	No
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Keywords

• Reflective practice; EFL; pre-service teacher

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