ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the feasibility and value of employing a digital voice recorder to capture the teacher's thoughts, ideas, and hunches, as well as her spoken interactions with her students while conducting an action research project to promote reading engagement in her class of second language university learners. Relatively few studies have been published on reflective practice in Malaysia. Reflective practice promotes teachers' professional development in the long run, permitting them to examine their teaching and thereby deepen their understanding of what they do, and thus gain new insights about their students and their own pedagogy. Reflective practice is integral to action research, and can be facilitated by various mediating tools. A lesson plan is the most obvious tool for reflecting for action, and a reflective journal is a personal document to record and think back to occurrences in class, thereby promoting reflective thinking for future action.
