IN BECOMING EFL WRITING TEACHER: A DIARY STUDY

  • Gaston Soehadi Faculty of Letters, Petra Christian University
Keywords: teaching diary, reflection, essay

Abstract

To improve teaching quality, teachers need a tool to help them reflect and evaluate their teaching decisions and actions. Teachers can always rely on schools to do such a job, but they can also use a personal and professional teaching diary as a means to do a self-analysis and evaluation. This article reports the practice of my using the teaching diary as a writing teacher as a means to help me look beyond and reflect on my teaching routines

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Published
2008-01-25
How to Cite
Soehadi, G. (2008). IN BECOMING EFL WRITING TEACHER: A DIARY STUDY. K@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Languange and Literature, 9(2), 141-157. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.9744/kata.9.2.141-157
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