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1, March 2022

In-Service EFL Teachers’ Reflections on Their

Instructional Practices: A Study in Indonesian
Instructional Context
Irvan Effendi1, Anita Triastuti2
Yogyakarta State University, Indonesia1,2
E-mail: [email protected]

Submitted: 14/09/2021 Revised: 17/02/2022 Accepted: 28/03/2022

E-ISSN : 2579-4574 P-ISSN : 2549-7359

Abstract. Reflective teaching is a means to improve teacher professionalism. By applying

reflective teaching, teachers can not only find out their strengths and weaknesses during
teaching, but also re-examine their principles and beliefs. In this regard, the purpose of this
study is to determine the extent to which in-service EFL teachers understand the concept of
reflective teaching, the reflection strategies they apply, and the obstacles that might hinder
them in reflecting. This research is categorized as a descriptive-qualitative study which
involved six junior high school in-service EFL teachers from four districts in Central Java and
the Special Region of Yogyakarta. This study administered 3 data collection techniques,
which are in-depth interviews, stimulated recall, and close-ended questionnaires as the data
triangulation. The findings indicated that of the six participants, only two had heard or knew
about the term reflective teaching. However, they have integrated reflection to their
teaching practice and showed their ability to reflect within the level of dialogic reflection.
Descriptive writing as the lowest level serves as their point of departure before they came to
the higher levels (descriptive reflection and dialogic reflection). There was no evidence to
show that the participants had reached the highest level of reflection, which is critical
reflection. Further examination found that there were two major issues that hindered
participants from reflecting, i.e. their lack of knowledge about the concepts and strategies
of reflective teaching and a heavy number of administrative workload which reduced their
reflection time.

Keywords: Reflective Teaching, EFL, Reflective Practice, Reflection

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INTRODUCTION
Teachers are substantial assets of any education system. In cultivating the
world of teaching, teachers are required to be diligent in innovating and doing
reflection including teaching language, in this case, English language education. The
increasing demand for the English language in every single level of education and
research over the last decades has often been assumed to be a parallel and inevitable
process in producing better international academic communication throughout the
world (Bai, 2019). The Indonesian government considers equipping students with
English as necessary in relation to this inevitability of globalization and the status of
English as an international language (Lauder, 2008). Essentially, the purpose of
English learning affects how English is going to be taught (Harmer, 2007). The way
English teachers formulate their instructional design must be adjusted to the needs
of their students. Some learners may learn English for Specific Purposes (ESP), such
as English for hospitality, tourism, banking, nursing, and business. In Indonesia,
students especially in secondary and high schools learn English as a Foreign Language
or English for Academic Purposes (EAP) considering its status as a mandatory subject
in the school. They need to access English-language academic texts to study abroad
or at least to complete their course. This is why the role of teachers becomes crucial,
which one of these roles is developing children’s interest in learning a subject or
language (Archana & Rani, 2017).
In this regard, English teachers have to always improve and reflect on their
classroom activities to identify the problems that emerge, find out drawbacks, and
provide treatments that should be taken. In the Indonesian education context,
reflective practice is a necessity since the Ministry of National Education of Indonesia
(2007) has recommended it as one of the teacher competency standards that
centralizes on having good pedagogical, social-awareness, and intrapersonal skills.
However, the implementation of this policy among educators in Indonesia remains
vague (Nurkamto & Sarosa, 2020). Yanuarti and Treagust (2016) found that many
teachers do not understand the notion of reflective teaching because of the lack of
seminars, training, and other information dissemination that focus on reflective
practice. Teachers' lack of understanding about the concept of reflective teaching
will lead them to implement teaching methods that are routinized, which may have
been influenced by their teaching habit with no critical awareness of improving their
professional development (Lubis, 2018; Mesa, 2018; Nurkamto & Sarosa, 2020). It
denies John Dewey's (1933) idea of reflective thought which encompasses “active,
persistent, and careful consideration of any belief or supposed form of knowledge in
the light of the grounds that support it and the conclusion to which it tends” (p. 6).
In addition, teachers who remain complacent in their comfort zone without making
any endeavors to self-reflect for improvement may risk their career commitment and
professionalism (Akbari, 2007).
Reflective teaching requires teachers to not only transform their daily
classroom routines but also being aware of what problems are arising (Mesa, 2018).
In so doing, teachers will be able to analyze and self-evaluate the process of learning
and monitor their development (Heydarnejad et al., 2018; Sabgini & Khoiriyah, 2020).
It is true that teacher training and development can be a good supporting medium to
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introduce the concept of reflective teaching to teachers. However, according to

Richards and Farrell (2005), teacher training simply focuses on short-termed goals of
learning and accentuates on specific skills and responsibilities; while teacher
development originally revolves around long-termed teacher proficiency to improve
their teaching abilities and skills.
In order to engage in teacher development, an English teacher needs to have
a systematic and thoughtful collection of his/her own self-inquiry and teaching
practices in order to have ‘high-quality standards of learning and teaching
methodology’ (Zahid & Khanam, 2019, p. 32). Unfortunately, many teachers lack
information about what they have done in the classroom (Afshar & Farahani, 2018;
Bawaneh et al., 2020; Nurkamto & Sarosa, 2020). Richards and Lockhart (1996) stated
that teachers rarely examine their own teaching practices until they are told to do so
by the educational authorities. Many research arouse that experienced teachers
apply classroom routines and strategies almost automatically without involving a
great deal of ‘conscious thought’ (Parker, 1984, cited in Richards & Lockhart, 1996, p.
4). Accordingly, there have been many experts talking about teacher development.
In addition, joining teacher workshops and training, Richards and Farrell (2005)
explain that the teachers’ competencies could be developed by keep applying some
reflective teaching strategies like teaching journals and portfolios, audio or video
recording, stimulated recall, peer observation, and self-monitoring. Teachers should
also keep thinking about and questioning themselves their goals and values in
teaching – and examining his/her teaching assumption (Zeichner & Liston, 2014).
In sum, reflective teaching provides many positive effects. Therefore,
teachers are recommended to conduct reflective practice in their teaching activities.
There are studies that investigate the importance of reflective teaching for
educators, especially pre-service teachers (Astika, 2014; Nurfaidah, 2018; Rozimela &
Tiarina, 2018; Sabgini & Khoiriyah, 2020). However, reflective practices carried out by
in-service teachers who have been teaching for decades are necessary to discuss
considering that they are the source of reference and role models for prospective
teachers. In addition, exposure deficiency about the concept and strategies of
reflective teaching will lead them to implement teaching methods that are routinized,
which may have been influenced by their long teaching habit with no critical
awareness of improving their professional development (Lubis, 2018; Mesa, 2018;
Nurkamto & Sarosa, 2020). Their dependence on this routine-based mindset makes
them lack information about what they might be able to gather from their classrooms
(Afshar & Farahani, 2018; Bawaneh et al., 2020; Nurkamto & Sarosa, 2020). Hence, this
study attempts to reveal the English teachers’ understanding of the reflective
teaching, to what extent they established their reflective practice, and the issues
surrounding their reflective practice – particularly in junior high schools where English
is first formally taught.
After discussing the rationale and theoretical framework, the research
questions can be formulated as follows:
1. How do in-service English teachers comprehend reflective practice in teaching?
2. To what extent is reflective teaching implemented in their teaching practices?
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3. What are the hindering factors that prevent in-service English teachers from
practicing reflective teaching?
THEORETICAL REVIEW
Reflection and Reflective Practice
The practice of reflection is a fundamental aspect to consider good teaching
and learning process in the nature of professionalism in education (Yanuarti &
Treagust, 2016). Now, related terms such as ‘reflection’, ‘reflective thinking’,
‘reflective practice’, ‘reflective teaching’, ‘teacher as decision maker’, and ‘teacher as
reflective practitioner’ are widely used in various educational contexts and being
discussed by different types of theoretical frameworks (Çimer et al., 2013, p. 133; B,
2016, p. 427). Fat’hi and Behzadpour (2011) contend that the conceptions on
reflection and reflective practices already come to “loose and fuzzy treatment” (p.
245).
If we traced back to Dewey (1910; 1933) theory of reflective and reflection,
we may found that both are “active, persistent, and careful consideration of any
belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the grounds that support it and
the conclusion to which it tends” (p. 6, p. 9). He or she, as a reflective practitioner,
keeps questioning their action: whether my practice work or not, what thing restricts
my practice, why my practice did not work, and what should I do next (Sünbül &
Kurnaz, 2016). Furthermore, Farrell (2018) mentions that reflection is a tool that
prevents such a routine from reaching the burnout phase because practitioners take
a time to stop and examine their experiences rather than engaging in repetitive
habits.
In the 1970s, Freire (1972) and Habermas (1974) initiated deeper discussions
on how critical reflection may enter teachers’ professional domain. Critical reflection
is a portray when teachers make sense of their practice's intricacies and reinterpret
their own experiences from a diverse points of view (Kitchen, 2017). More broadly, it
places them as ‘transformers’, which reflect not only for themselves but for the
institutions and communities in which they interact (Gorski & Dalton, 2020, p. 359).
There are some understandings that make reflection critical. First, reflection may be
critical because it is a ‘suspended judgement’ (Dewey, 1910, p. 74) or strong
‘presuppositions’ that leads to the essential solution (Mezirow, 1991, p. 23). In this
case, critical is about the ability to transform, involve, and aiming at the fundamental
change in perspective. Second, it could be considered critical because of its focus on
the ‘accuracy and validity’ of our teaching assumptions (Brookfield, 2017, p. 3).
Later, John Dewey’s theory of reflection was developed by Donald Schön.
He proposes two types of reflection as reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action
(Schön, 1987). Reflection-in-action refers to a practitioner’s thought where he/she
withstands the action that has occurred, recompiles it, and attempts to sense it from
a different perspective (Scales et al., 2011; Schön, 1983). Reflection-on-action means
that the practitioner thinks about the whole logical outcome of the activity at the end
of the action (Zahid & Khanam, 2019). O’Donnel et al. (2005; in Yanuarti & Treagust,
2016) suggest a new process that is called, reflection for action, which uses reflection
itself as an origination to plan further decisions so the next action will be more
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beneficial for teachers. In short, reflection-in and on action applies during and after
teaching practice while reflection for action is concerned with using reflection as a
starting point for planning future action for further benefits of self-continuous
improvement for teachers.
Definition and Perspectives Toward Reflective Teaching
In a very general stage, the term reflective teaching stresses a thought about
someone’s teaching (Mathew et al., 2017). Liu and Zhang (2014) assume that this
thought is more about ongoing activities in the classroom teaching and learning
process by setting alternative actions to achieve better goals or aims. Reflective
teaching deals with the movement in the area of education in which student-teachers
or practicing teachers examine their own practice and its underlying framework, and
then distinct alternative means get better outcomes (B, 2016). In short, reflective
teaching indicates an action when practitioners “explore connections between their
beliefs with what actually happened in their practices” (Farrell, 2021, p. 60).
Qing (2009) sees reflective teaching as an approach which assumes that
teachers can improve their understanding and the quality of their teaching by
formulating a critical reflection based on their own tutoring experiences. Moreover,
Richards and Lockhart (1996) state that reflective teaching is an activity in which
teachers and student-teachers collect data about teaching, analyze their own
attitudes, beliefs, assumptions, and teaching practices, and use the gathered
information as a fundamental consideration for critical reflection about teaching.
Kalbani (2007) mentions the definitions of reflective teaching through five different
perspectives which are: technical perspective, contextual perspective, social
perspective, experiential or deliberative perspective, and critical perspective.
From the technical point of view, the teachers while applying their reflective
practice pay attention to strategies and methods to be used to predetermined goals
(Bartlett, 1990 in Kalbani, 2007). Thus, it puts practitioners as the ‘instrumental
problem solvers’ who choose the best suited technical means to particular purposes
(Schön, 1987, p. 3). In seeing from a contextual perspective, teachers may connect
concepts, contexts, and theoretical bases toward classroom practices and are be able
to assess their implication to student growth (Maulid, 2017). By this, ‘clarification of
and elaboration on the underlying assumptions’ of classroom practice are involved in
the reflective strategies used (B, 2016, p. 428).
The third is the definition of reflective teaching from the social perspective.
In this focus, reflection is not only an independent process involving a teacher and his
or her situation, but also as a social process that could sustain and support each
other’s growth (Zeichner & Liston, 1996). It also means that teamwork between
colleagues is essential. This two-way dialogic endeavor permits teachers to share
mutual knowledge and bridge them with what they have encountered in their
practices (Huang et al., 2020; Silcock, 1994). Next, an experiential or deliberative
perspective, which requires teachers to develop their consciousness towards the
previous actions and ideas that frame their strategies and come out with their own
values, beliefs, and teaching perspectives in making their decisions when they are
doing reflection (Osterman & Kottkamp, 1993). This point of view leads teachers to
not only rely on what they must do next, but they also consider their own practical
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theories, teaching experiences, values, and beliefs in making their decision (B, 2016).
The last, the critical perspective means that teachers in their reflections also put
ethical and political consequences into account rather than just classroom-matters
(Zeichner & Liston, 1996).
In particular, critical reflection was initiated by Stephen Brookfield in 1990s
who put critical reflection as an implicit assumption that contains the result of
immersion from the professional and cultural atmosphere that surrounds the
practitioners (Brookfield, 2017). Furthermore, other factors such as historical and
socio-political factors are also taken into consideration in critical reflection (Hatton &
Smith, 1995). Now, there have been many studies that discuss reflections, reflective
practice, and reflective teaching. On the other hand, the roles of the three key
players, John Dewey, Donald Schön, and Stephen Brookfield, will always be vital and
fundamental.
Based on the aforementioned discussion, an outline can be drawn which
concludes that reflective teaching is a cyclical process of teacher professional
development. Reflective teaching is the use of opportunities by a teacher in his/her
daily life to systematically explore, question, and reframe his teaching practice
holistically to be able to make correct interpretations based on conditions in the field
and then be able to make the right choices to improve his performance. In the other
words, teachers do not only act as educators, but also as researchers, clinical
supervisors, and critical pedagogical actors
The Levels of Reflection
According to Van Manen (1977), there are three levels of reflection. First,
technical rationality, which concerns with the efficiency and effectiveness of the
teaching activity without being connected to any specific incident in the classroom.
It is indicated by the application of tacit knowledge that leads to rigid objective and
daily performance (Manen, 1977). In the other words, teachers just focus on the
aspects of their own practice without paying attention to social context.
The second is practical rationality, which pays attention to the assessment of
educational goals and how they are achieved by the learners. It is identified by the
process where assumptions, experiences, goals, meanings, and perceptions which
initiate classroom activities are analyzed and clarified (Manen, 1977). Teachers
become more aware by consequently checking their assumptions in addressing
pedagogical consequences. Inline, Hatton and Smith (1995) stated that this phase
occurs when teachers’ assumptions alongside the teaching and learning process are
embedded in language and being negotiated through it.
The last is critical rationality, which considers the worth of educational goals,
how well they are being accomplished, and to whom it is beneficial from the
successful accomplishment of those ends (Gimenez, 1999). In this rationality, instead
of their routines, teachers also monitor moral and ethical aspects of the classroom.
Teachers pay attention to the worth of knowledge and social circumstances which
are necessary to bring up questions of ‘worthwhileness’ in the first place (Manen,
1977, p. 227). They involve cultural, social, and political elements in their practice. They
also challenge their own assumptions and answering their actions as they realize that
“universal consensus, free from delusions or distortions, is the ideal of a deliberative
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rationality that pursues worthwhile educational ends in self-determination,

community, and on the basis of justice, equality, and freedom” (Manen, 1977, p. 227).
Meanwhile, Hatton and Smith (1995) in their study at the University of
Sydney developed Van Manen’s level of reflection. They coined four levels of
reflection by the way teachers express their reflective thought unit, which are
descriptive writing, descriptive reflection, dialogic reflection, and critical reflection.
Descriptive writing is the lowest level where practitioners only tell what is on their
minds without going through a systematic thought process. There are no attempts
by teachers to justify certain events that they have gone through (Hatton & Smith,
1995). In the second level, descriptive reflection, even though the reflections carried
out by the teachers were still in the form of descriptions, there were attempts to
justify certain events in their practices. Hatton and Smith (1995) provided an example
of a reflective thought unit at this level as below.
"I chose this problem-solving activity because I believe that students should be
active rather than passive learners." (p. 48)
The reflective thought unit represents alternate viewpoints which were
shown by participants in the circumstance which is reported. However, there are no
certain drawbacks about what students need to engage in to reach certain levels.
In the third level, which is dialogic reflection, teachers are invited to have self-
discourse in reasoning and looking for possibilities that might occur in their next
practices. This is what Hatton and Smith (1995) called a ‘stepping back’ action in the
form of alternatives and hypotheses as a result of their deep reasoning and
justification toward their experience (p. 48). At this level, teachers begin to show
creative and critical thinking patterns and provide innovation in judging a particular
problem.
The highest level, critical reflection is a stage where teachers – in their
reflection – involve several facts about what to do based on historical, cultural, and
socio-political contexts. They do not only see the reflection from the scope of
practice and theory but also from multiple perspectives. The following is an example
of a student teacher's thought who is able to view reflection in a broader context
between teachers, students, and institutions as a society.
“What must be recognized, however, is that the issues of student management
experienced with this class can only be understood within the wider structural
locations of power relationships established between teachers and students in
schools as social institutions based upon the principle of control” (Hatton & Smith,
1995, p. 49)
Reflection at this stage requires not only self-confidence, self-awareness,
and self-assessment, but also experience in developing reflective practices (Farrell,
2009). By involving these considerations, it is hoped that teachers can become
reflective practitioners not only in classroom language teaching but also as a social
entity (Pishghadam et al., 2012). In connection with this study, the reflectivity level
proposed by Hatton and Smith (1995) is used as a parameter to measure the extent
to which reflective practice has been applied by the participants. The reflective level
denomination was adjusted to the points described above.
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RESEARCH METHOD
Research Design
This study belongs to descriptive qualitative research which is designed to
find out the ways junior secondary in-service teachers implement reflective practice
on their instructional design. The data was garnered through a survey and then
analyzed through descriptive qualitative analysis. Such a method suits this study
considering that it investigates teachers’ perspectives and practice regarding the
nature of reflective English teaching. In detail, this research focuses on how the
participants interpret what reflective teaching is, how and to what stage they apply
their reflective practices, and the issues that prevent them from reflecting. The
details will be explained in the next sub-section.
Participants
To locate potential informants, the researcher exerted criterion purposive
sampling which aimed to dig deeper into research questions, goals, and purposes in
accordance with the required parameters (Gay et al., 2012; Tracy, 2020). 18 English
teachers from 4 junior high schools in Central Java and The Special Region of
Yogyakarta were sorted as the participant candidates. Of these 18 teachers, six in-
service teachers who have been teaching for more than 10 years were deemed
potential and thus chosen based on the compliance, accessibility, teaching
experiences, and demographic diversity for maximum variations (Tracy, 2020). The
participants’ data information can be seen in the table below.
Table 1. The Data of the Participants
Participant Major Gender Age Teaching Assigned
Experience Place
IST1 English Male 50 27 years Sleman
Teacher
IST2 English Female 34 11 years Sleman
Teacher
IST3 English Female 36 12 years Kebumen
Teacher
IST4 English Female 45 21 years Banyumas
Teacher
IST5 English Female 57 35 years Cilacap
Teacher
IST6 English Male 53 22 years Cilacap
Teacher
Instruments
In this study, the researcher carried out multiple data collection techniques
to gather the data. Close-ended questionnaires, stimulated recall, and in-depth
interviews were employed to acquire information from the data sources. The
questionnaire consisted of some factual, behavioral, and attitudinal questions which
aimed to reveal facts and thoughts about the participants' general knowledge of
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reflective teaching (Dornyei, 2007). The items were adapted from the theory offered
by Ho and Richards (2000) which contains general points that describe their reflective
practices. The second technique was stimulated recall, which serves to explore
participants’ thoughts, strategies, or reflections after they have conducted a pre-
determined activity (Gass & Mackey, 2017). The last instrument, interview guideline,
was served to gain a rich description of the participants’ understandings, practices,
and ‘historical information’ on reflective teaching (Creswell & Creswell, 2018, p. 264).
Since the data were obtained through several data collection techniques, data
triangulation was applied to this study to set up coherent justification for the consent
theme and ensure the validity of the instrument (Cohen et al., 2018, Creswell &
Creswell, 2018). The instrument was also validated by a dedicated lecturer and piloted
before being carried out to the field (Wilkinson & Birmingham, 2003). To ensure the
reliability, research questions were made as clear as possible and the elements of the
study design were tangential with them (Miles et al., 2014). Furthermore, an inter-
coder agreement was also carried out by the researcher and the supervisor to
prevent possible drift in the interpretation and avoid meaning-shift during the coding
process (Creswell, 2016; Creswell & Creswell, 2018).
Data Collection
The questionnaires were printed and administered to the participants at the
initial stage to prevent opinion arousal that may occur during the next phase; which
are stimulated recall and in-depth interviews. Stimulated recall was used by the
researcher to elicit participants' ideas in reviewing their reflective practices after
teaching and learning activities. As stated by Gass and Mackey (2017), stimulated
recall serves to explore participants’ thoughts, strategies, or reflections after they
have conducted a pre-determined activity. In this study, each participant was invited
to conduct a stimulated recall interview in the form of a question-and-answer session
after completing two consecutive meetings. The researcher asked several questions
regarding the reflective practices that the respondents applied in the two previous
meetings and audio-recorded. The results of the stimulated recall audio recordings
were transcribed, translated into English, and interpreted according to the level of
reflective teaching parameters. In-depth interview was the last data gathering
method in this study which aimed to reveal participant's ‘historical information’ in
more detail as well as explored how they implemented their reflective practices
(Creswell & Creswell, 2018, p. 264). The data taken were recorded, transcribed, and
translated before being analyzed. An appointment was set before the researcher
interviewed the respondents and the interview was carried out by using Bahasa
Indonesia to make it easier for participants in giving more detailed data.
Data Analysis
The data were analyzed using the analysis model of Miles et al. (2014) which
includes data condensation, data coding, data display, data interpretation, and
conclusion drawing and verification. The transcript of the stimulated recall and
interview were translated first from Bahasa Indonesia to English before being
condensed and coded (Saldaña, 2013; Miles et al., 2014; Saldaña & Omasta, 2018). The
data were condensed to distill the breadth of responses expressed by participants.
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The data that had been condensed were re-assembled to be coded. The condensed
or “winnowed data” were coded according to the segmentation of data sources,
which represent concepts, thoughts, and practices related to participants’ reflective
teaching activities (Creswell & Creswell, 2018). Particularly, in recognizing
participants' level of reflections, Hatton and Smith's (1995) reflective criteria were
used as the primary guideline. Issues related to the participants' understanding of
reflective teaching and obstacles surrounding their reflective practice are
synthesized with related theories and previous studies.
RESULT AND DISCUSSION
Teachers’ Understandings of the Notion of Reflective Teaching
The participants involved in this study were six in-service EFL teachers with
more than 10 years of teaching experience. Of the six participants, only IST4 and IST6
who had ever heard of the term reflective teaching. IST4 said that she received
knowledge of Reflective Teaching in a teacher training, as illustrated below.
"Yes, I think I’ve heard the term (Reflective Teaching), during a teacher training
few years ago." (IST4)
Meanwhile, IST6 uttered that he first recognized the term when he attended
Curriculum 13 training in 2015.
"Once, I've studied it. That was when I attended the Curriculum 13 (K-13)
training around 2015.” (IST6)
From the aforementioned portrayal, it is true if Nurkamto and Sarosa (2020)
said that becoming senior teachers with long teaching experience does not
guarantee that they know many things about teaching. The participants' confusion
might lead to misconceptions in defining what reflective teaching is. Yanuarti and
Treagust (2016) – at their study – found that three of their six participants assumed
that reflective teaching is a kind of reflective activity before closing the lesson, which
involves only the students to conclude what they already got during the lesson. This
misconception was also experienced by IST5, who thought that reflective teaching is
a physical activity that involves teachers and students, as illustrated in the interview
vignette below.
"Reflective Teaching? Which invites the children to…, umm…? What are the
examples? What kind of sport is that?" (IST5)
However, not understanding the concept of reflective teaching does not
mean that they do not reflect at all. They continue to reflect as part of their
obligations as teachers even though they do not realize that what they are doing
belongs to the concept of reflective practice. It supports Yanuarti and Treagust's
(2016) findings that teachers keep reflecting their own way even though they did not
recognize it as reflective teaching. The participants of this study realized that being a
teacher is a profession that carries great responsibility. As suggested by Richards and
Farrell (2005), they have set up their ‘self-awareness’ and engage their
‘understanding of learners’ in order to find out their strengths and weaknesses
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during teaching (p. 9). For example, as shown by IST2 in the interview session as
follows.
"… yes, (I do reflection) every day. Because of what? For example, if we want
to teach again, we will definitely remember what we achieved last week. Then,
(I could identify) what are the students' obstacles and my obstacles. So, if
possible, (it is hoped that) the obstacle should not happen again." (IST2)
As presented before, IST4 heard the term in a regional teacher training and
IST6 learned it when he attended 2015 Curriculum-13 training. This is in line with what
was said by Richard and Farrell (2005) that opportunities for in-service teacher
training are crucial for their program development in any educational institution they
work. Teacher training and development for in-service teachers will always be
essential because “not everything teachers need to know can be provided at pre-
service levels” (Richards & Farrell, 2005, p. 1). Moreover, the lack of pre-service and
in-service teacher training and development programs is an 'acute' problem that will
cause the practice of English teaching to lag behind (Harun & Al-Amin, 2013, p. 69).
Nevertheless, in-service workshops are designed only for short-term and immediate
goals, so consistency and awareness are needed for all parties to employ ongoing
renewal of professional teaching skills and knowledge (Richards & Farrell, 2005;
Richards & Lockhart, 1996).
With the existing knowledge they have, the participants express their
reflective thought and reflective practice mostly by writing – whether it is in the form
of teaching journals, special notes, or through chats. IST1’s reflective notes, for
example, not only are useful for recording the continuity of the lesson, but they can
also mark special events that occur in class, or what he calls 'anecdote'.
"… it (reflection) is teachers’ duty. We must take a note every day. After we
teach, we must record events happened in the classroom. For example, when
a student is not present, what we teach now, we note it because it is attached,
yes. But for an anecdote, we just take a note when it happens. So, we term
special events as anecdote." (IST1)
This is the same as what Thomas Farrell said that such reflective writing can
accommodate not only lesson progress but also perceived issues/problems, including
critical incidents (Farrell, 2021). In addition, all participants are also helped by
reflective teaching journals that have been provided by their respective schools
because the journals enable them to keep a record of their classroom progress and
set better strategies for their future teachings. This is why Farrell (2021)
recommended reflective writing as one of the essential strategies. It is because,
without such a record, teachers often lack a substantial recollection of what is
happening in the classroom and cannot really use their successful or unsuccessful
teaching experience only as a source for further development (Richards & Farrell,
2005).
Teachers’ Level of Reflective Teaching Practices
Based on the findings focusing on the levels of the EFL ISTs' reflective
practice, all participating teachers in this study were at the level of dialogic reflection
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due to their reflective thought units and practices. Hatton and Smith (1995)
considered a practitioner to be at the level of dialogic reflection when he/she is having
a “discourse with self and exploring the experience, events, and actions using
qualities of judgments and possible alternatives for explaining and hypothesizing” (p.
48). This is characterized by the participants by their ability to make possible
decisions based on their previous experience. Each participant, with their strategies,
could purposefully analyze problems that occur in the classroom and provide
solutions to overcome their predicted problems as well as set up preventive actions.
For example, we can take a look at the reflective thought unit below.
“…. In the past, I used Power Point to start with. As time goes by, I tried
something else to make it (teaching and learning process) more interesting. I
made an animation using Protagon. It turned out that because of this, the
students became happier. Then, I provided a task to create a dialogue. I allowed
students to make a mini-comic involving pictures or animation. Apparently,
they liked it too. … It means that there is a slight improvement. From the past
where only fifty percent of students have collected assignments. … Then,
yesterday I tried using a live worksheet, with the hope that the students will be
more enthusiastic too. But apparently there were also difficulties, for example,
to check-in you have to be online. Ma'am I don't have an email, they said.
Sometimes you have to conduct more interaction. … (IST2)
This is in line with the findings of Kholis and Madya's( 2021) study which
revealed that the majority of EFL teachers have achieved similar reflection
parameters. In their study, EFL teachers were one level below critical reflection,
meaning that they were able to integrate their pedagogical knowledge in EFL
language teaching with their classroom practice (Kholis & Madya, 2021). The same
result was also obtained by the study conducted by Daley et al. (2019) and Kheirzadeh
and Sistani (2018) which found that their respondents had implemented reflective
practice up to this phase.
In addition, the participants’ level of descriptive writing echo Hatton and
Smith's (1995) concept that reflective practitioners – at their early stage – begin their
reflection by describing events that occurred during their teaching activities, as
exemplified below. The data is still in the form of a report of literature and there is no
attempt by the participants to provide justification for the events. It is because, as
stated by Tsui (2011), teachers at the beginning stage tend to be interpretive and less
analytical, which directs them to tell what they experienced with a limited span of
reasons about their actions. However, as also found by Nurfaidah et al. (2017),
descriptive writing usually serves as their stepping stone before moving on to the
next level. In the latter entries, the participants further justify and judge their
descriptive events. For example, when they noticed that the teaching approach they
brought into the classroom did not really attract students' attention or made them
felt less motivated to participate –as indicated by the fifth participant’s reflective
thought unit below.
“I often write notes and I use it as a reference for the next teaching. For
example, while the students are being less active or passive, I have to find
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another way. It is like… in this class, I'll try to use this method; and for the other
classes I’ll administer a new model. That is what I usually do." (IST5)
This way of thought positioned her at the level of descriptive reflection,
where teachers show some effort to provide justification for events or actions
(Hatton & Smith, 1995). Their shift of thoughts –from only describing to the attempt
of justifying their events or actions– is also to represent Donald Schön's (1987)
reflection-on-action at the early stage.
Along with further exploration, they displayed development from just a
justification to deeper consideration by providing possible alternatives toward the
issues they face. The participants demonstrated what Hatton and Smith (1995) called
a 'stepping back' from the events/actions which led them to did quality judgments (p.
48). On the other hand, there is no evidence to show that any of the participants
achieved the highest reflectivity level, which is critical reflection. It is because – at this
level – teachers need to be aware that events and actions are not only explicable by
reference to multiple perspectives, but also predisposed by historical and socio-
political context (Hatton & Smith, 1995). This fact was acknowledged by –for
example, one of the participants. IST3 admitted that:
"I think it is too far. (We have to) traversing politics as well? I don't think so.
Unless it becomes an obligation for us to correlate it. But so far, we have
reflected only within the school corridor." (IST3)
It marks that the participant only reflected based on aspects within the
school corridor without involving the aforementioned external factors. This entry
resonates with Hatton and Smith's (1994) findings at their proceeding which
mentioned that critical reflectivity is only experienced by a small portion of teachers
since this level requires a broader perspective, knowledge, and more experiential
bases that take some time to develop.
Hindering Factors
There were two major issues that hinder the participants from applying their
reflectivity. In substance, they did reflection in their teaching activities because they
realized that this activity aids them in various aspects of their teaching. This is as
stated by Farrell (2015) that both pre-service and in-service teachers feel obliged to
reflect because they see it beneficial toward their future practice. However, their lack
of recognition of the concepts and strategies of reflective teaching made them only
reflect based on what is happening in the classroom without considering the broader
aspects that may affect students' interest in learning. It supports Nurkamto and
Sarosa's (2020) emphasis that teachers' understanding of the concept of reflective
teaching significantly affected their reflective pace. This is why the need for an early
introduction to the nature of reflective teaching is very necessary. As suggested by
Rozimela and Tiarina (2018) that any education departments at university need to
involve reflective teaching as part of pedagogical competence in order to provide
space for prospective teachers to develop.
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The second problem faced by the participants was the large number of
school administrative tasks assigned to them, which took up their time for reflection.
This is as expressed by the first participant as follows.
"Personally, I am burdened with a lot of curriculum matters. Sometimes, I
(initially) want to do this, but I have to do something else for the benefit of the
Madrasah and the fellow teachers as a whole. Of course, I and my fellow
teachers do what they are obliged to do, which is teaching. (But) For me, my
job is not only teaching but also that kind of work (curriculum), which is even
possess a bigger portion." (IST1)
This issue is in line with what Farrell (2018) said that teachers “are always
trying to follow the million mandates sent from the administration, curriculum
developers, school boards, and/or ministry of education officials, which leave little
time or energy for reflecting on their teaching” (p. 2). Tabassi et al. (2020) and Valdez
et al. (2018) in their studies also found that teachers are often shackled by severe
workloads that they have to complete in their daily professional routines. Moreover,
too much administrative burden will also limit their professional voice, reduce
teacher autonomy, and confine their freedom in making pedagogical reasoning
(Minott, 2010; Ostorga, 2006; Tajik & Ranjbar, 2018).
CONCLUSION
There are three major key findings that can be drawn from this study
regarding the research questions acknowledged in the previous sections. The first
investigation regarding in-service teachers' understanding of the notion of reflective
teaching found that although not all participants understood the concept of
reflective teaching, they had integrated reflective practice as part of their teaching
routine. It is because they realized that reflection is – not only a part of their
obligations as teachers but also a strategy to investigate the strengths and
weaknesses within their teaching and learning activities. Therefore, the participants
managed to implement reflective practice by writing their reflections in their special
notes or teaching journals provided by their respective schools.
The second key finding is about the extent of reflective practice they apply,
which is classified into the 4 levels of reflectivity proposed by Hatton and Smith
(1995). Based on the data garnered, overall ISTs' level of reflection is at the dialogic
reflection level. This is indicated by their ability to evaluate their instructional activities
using quality judgment, justification and provide solutions and alternatives to deal
with the weaknesses that arose in their previous meetings. Descriptive writing as the
lowest level serves as their point of departure before they came to the higher levels
(descriptive reflection and dialogic reflection). There is no evidence to show that the
participants have reached the highest level of reflection, which is critical reflection. It
said so because the participants do not meet the criteria for critical reflection which
requires practitioners to consider multiple extraneous aspects such as historical and
socio-political context.
Regarding the last research focus, which is the issues surrounding their
reflective practice, participants complained that too many administrative tasks
reduced their reflection time. The high teaching hours followed by the curriculum
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workload also hindered the participants from reflecting on their teaching practices.
In addition, the participants' lack of knowledge about the concepts and strategies of
reflective teaching also affects their performance in reflecting.
Based on the findings, although the participants had integrated reflective
practice in their teaching activities, they still did not fully understand the concepts
and strategies of reflective teaching. This resulted in the lack of their method of
reflection which was only limited to writing events that occurred in the classroom
without considering other aspects such as social, political, and cultural that might
affect students' interest in learning. In addition, teachers also need to be aware of
their teaching practices and cultivate their willingness to change for the better
outcome. To build such a level of awareness, it is important to introduce reflective
teaching concepts as early as possible. The addition of Reflective Teaching discipline
in the lecture curriculum – especially education study programs – will help provide a
basic overview of the terms, aspects, and strategies of reflective teaching. In this
way, prospective teachers will be better prepared to engage in teaching and learning
practices and carry out their routines on a reflective basis.
For in-service teachers, this is why teacher training and teacher development
programs have become essential. Comprehensive teacher training or seminars on
reflective teaching will serve teachers with solid knowledge of the concept of
reflection, its strategies, and its significance to teaching. Furthermore, these training
will encourage in-service teachers to implement reflective practice with proper
reason-generating strategies that integrate teachers' critical, analytical thinking, and
problem-solving skills. Thus, teachers will become accustomed to and regard
reflective practice as an inevitable part of their teaching careers. In the other hand,
policies regarding teacher administrative burdens also need to be compromised. It is
hoped that teachers will be more flexible to involve reflections as part of their lesson
preparations with less unrelated activities or duties that consume valuable class time.
The educational stakeholders or supervisors need to pay closer attention to the
timetables of teachers and reconsiders the workloads they have to do within the
school scope.
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