TY - JOUR ID - 120733 TI - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Interpreting Reflective Practice in TESOL JO - Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research JA - IJLTR LA - en SN - 2322-1291 AU - Farrell, Thomas S. C. AD - Brock University, Canada Y1 - 2019 PY - 2019 VL - 7 IS - Issue 3 (Special Issue) SP - 1 EP - 14 KW - reflection KW - reflective practice: TESOL KW - implementing reflective practice DO - 10.30466/ijltr.2019.120733 N2 -   Reflective practice (RP) has become popular in many professions as a mark of professional competence. With this increase in popularity, many different definitions have developed alongside the many different approaches that have been advanced with many different theoretical underpinnings attached to these approaches. This is also the case within the field of education where although most educators agree some form of reflection is desirable, there is still no agreement on what RP is or how it should be implemented. RP has also been fully embraced within the teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) and unfortunately with the same lack of clarity as to what it is or how it can be implemented. One reason for this lack of clarity it that we seem to have forgotten where it originated and why it made a resurgence much later. In this paper I look back at two of the giants of the RP movement and then outline how I have interpreted their work and my own work in the implementation of RP for TESOL teachers. I also look to the future (reflect-for-action) of RP for TESOL teachers.   UR - https://ijltr.urmia.ac.ir/article_120733.html L1 - https://ijltr.urmia.ac.ir/article_120733_9d2f2efcf73cb9d98b466cb678b1ba3a.pdf ER -