F. Definition of Terms
For the sake of avoiding misunderstanding, the writer provides some definition of terms used in this study. They are stated as follows:
1. Weekly E-Reflection
Boud 2001: 2 defines reflection as a process of looking at experiences and learning new things from them. Reflection often deals with considering a
number of experiences and engaging with them to get the picture of what has happened. It often includes lo oking at unpleasant occurrences and concentrating
on the thoughts and feelings which go together with them Boud, 2001: 2 Schon 1983, 1987, as cited in Tang 2002: 2, views reflections must
have the relation with an action. He proposes two kinds of reflection. Firstly, when a student is able to think while acting, he does reflection-in-action.
Secondly, when a student is able to consider to what he has done, he does reflection-on-action
. Therefore, to reflect means to query what is seen, heard, read, and experienced in teaching practices. Moreover students, then, relate them
to what have been learnt and what have been done before in order to help interpret and enrich them, so that future decisions and actions related to students’ teaching
performance are enhanced. The writing process of the reflections can be done in several media. One of
the media is a weblog or a blog. According to Dudeney and Hockly 2007: 86 a weblog is basically a web page to have a regular diary. Weblogs are generally
managed by one person. He will regularly post many forms of content, such as comments, ideas, opinions, and experiences of daily life, links to interesting sites,
and jokes, to a web page Dudeney and Hockly, 2007: 87. Since reflections often contain one’s thinking of his experiences, weblogs, in microteaching class, can be
suitable media for the students to write their personal reflection, let their thoughts or comments out, and sha re their personal teaching experiences during the
microteaching class. Teachers can utilize weblogs as a means of assessing their learners by encouraging each of them to set up and keep using their own
individual blogs. In this study, weekly e -reflections are students’ consideration of the
teaching practice they have done and they have experienced in microteaching class reflection-on-action weekly and the reflections are written in a blog or a
weblog.
2. Class Teaching Performance
Kategori