Organization of the Paper

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3. Reflective Journal

Reflective Journal is a kind of reflective teaching tools, similar to teacher diary. In this research, this journal is used as learning tool and assessment for PRESETs to record and evaluate what they have experienced in the classroom during their teaching practicum. The contents of this journal which include what PRESETs know about English Language Teaching, what they can do to conduct the lesson with what they know and what things are needed to improve in their teaching, were taken as the data to see what PRESETs learnt with the guidance of this reflective teaching practice.

4. Pre-Service Teacher

In this study, pre-service teachers PRESETs refer to students of a university in Indonesia who major in English Education program and are still under training to achieve bachelor’s degree to be English teachers by enrolling in English Teaching to Young Learners course.

5. Young Learners

Young learners recognized in this paper are children aged from 8 to 12 years old who study in their fourth grade until sixth grade of primary school.

1.8 Organization of the Paper

Dini Mustaqima, 2013 Reflective Teaching Practice Of Pre-Service Teachers For Young Learners At A Teacher Training Institute Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | repository.upi.edu The paper has been divided into five chapters, as follow: Chapter I The first chapter provides the outline of the whole content discussed in the research. It includes eight sections including the background of the research, the research questions, the aims of the research, the scope of the research, the significance of the research, the research methodology, the clarification of related terms and the organization of the paper. Chapter II The second chapter elaborates several relevant theories and concepts of PRESETs in relation to reflective teaching. The elaboration includes the following aspects: 1 the explanation of professional development PD including the concept and the activities; 2 the elaboration on what the reflective teaching is as a part of professional development, covering the background of its emergence, the definition and the form of reflective tools commonly used for the practice; 3 the concept of young learners’ characteristics and ways to teach English as Foreign Language in classroom context as the consideration for PD practice, and 4 the description of PRESET in relation to their needs to get PD through RT practice. Chapter III Dini Mustaqima, 2013 Reflective Teaching Practice Of Pre-Service Teachers For Young Learners At A Teacher Training Institute Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | repository.upi.edu Furthermore, Chapter III gives explanation of how the research methodology is organized beginning with the statement of problems, then followed by research design, data collection, and data analysis. Chapter IV Then in Chapter IV, finding and discussion are described to give details of the research result. Chapter V Lastly, Chapter V presents the conclusion of the research and suggestions for the further research. Dini Mustaqima, 2013 Reflective Teaching Practice Of Pre-Service Teachers For Young Learners At A Teacher Training Institute Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | repository.upi.edu CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY This chapter gives explanation of how the research methodology is organized to provide the answers for the three research questions. It begins with statements of problems, followed by the research design, setting and participants, data collection, and data analysis.

3.1 Statement of Problems