Reflective practice is essential for teachers’ professional development. It leads teacher to shape and reshape their knowledge, and so forth a wide range of benefits can be achieved. However, to gain such benefits, teachers must have good quality of reflective practice. This qualitative case study aimed at investigating quality of reflective practice of four female EFL pre-service teachers in Indonesia. Framed with qualitative case study, this study employed online reflective journals as the main instrument to collect the data. The data were analysed deductively using content analysis. The results revealed that participants’ reflection tended to remain in the level of D1 and D2 which meant that they had tendency to merely retell and describe their teaching practice with limited evaluation. Only few of them were captured to reflect on the level of R1 and R2. In sum, although Indonesian EFL pre-service teachers had tendency to reflect in low level, it was interesting to find the fact that they sometimes reflected more critically in the level of R1 and R2. The result could be used as indicator that Indonesian EFL pre-service teachers had ability to reflect in a good way. Thus, following actions by related parties should be established in order to develop their abilities.
The research on implementation of three attitudes of reflective practice in the field of pre-service teachers is still rarely written. Thus, this study aimed at exploring pre-service teachers’ attitudes of reflective practice. Designed with case study, this study explored four pre-service teachers at private university in Central Java Indonesia who were enrolled as tutors in an English Tutorial Program of the same university. The data were gathered from pre-service teachers’ reflective journals, interview, and observation. Analyzed using thematic analysis, the findings of this study revealed that all pre-service teachers were captured to possess all virtues of reflective practice namely, open-mindedness, wholeheartedness, and responsibility. This would be a provision for them in developing their professional careers in the future. The implication of this study on language education program is also provided.
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