ABSTRACT
One of the buzzwords in the field of education over the past 20 years or so that has taken hold and become part of nearly every description of teacher education or development programs is "reflection" or "reflective practice". This chapter shows how the author got into the area of reflective practice and how the framework that author present in the book developed from more than 35 years of his work on the concept of reflective practice. This new framework, which consists of five stages/levels of reflection that starts with reflecting on philosophy and then moves to principles, theory, practice, and beyond practice, can be used by all language teachers regardless of their level of teaching experience. This makes it unique in teaching field because to author's knowledge no such overall framework exists. In addition, teachers are encouraged to reflect beyond practice or beyond their classroom, a much neglected aspect of reflecting on practice in second language education.
