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Cukup lama aku tidak bermain instagram. Hari ini terpikir untuk mengunggah sebuah foto. Lalu scroll down di timeline sendiri. Sekadar nostalgia dengan foto lama. Jariku lalu terhenti di foto kenangan setahun yang lalu. Pertemuan tak terduga dengan bang Andrea Hirata—kisah ini bisa dibaca di http://www.reskiawatianwar.my.id/2017/11/andrea-hirata-akhirnya.html . Kemudian kutengok rak bukuku yang sepi pendatang baru. Mencari-cari karya bang Andrea. Beberapa masih bertengger rapih. Selebihnya dipinjam orang dan tak pulang-pulang. Aku kemudian teringat kapan pertama kali membaca karyanya. Sewindu yang lalu jika tak salah. Saat masih imut-imut dengan seragam abu-abu putih. Tetralogi Laskar Pelangi. Inilah karya fenomenal bang Andrea Hirata. Kutemukan novel-novel ini di rak buku perpustakaan sekolah. Saat ada jam pelajaran kosong, pastilah perpustakaan jadi tempat nongkrong favorit. Kalau mengingat novel-novel bang Andrea, mestilah nuansa Melayu merebak bersama komedi khasnya. Tak ha...

Action research can promote reflective teaching. (Hensen as cited in Hine, 2013: 152) Hensen in Hine (2013:152) pointed out that action research can promote reflective teaching. Some questions might appear in your heads, what does reflective teaching mean? As a teacher who has a busy time to manage the classroom, should we do it? In this paper, we are going to discuss it. Language teachers from all over the world want to be a good teacher, but not all teachers can be. Then, what makes a good teacher? The answer may vary. In my point of view, one of the characteristics of a good teacher is a teacher who never stops learning, meaning that we are not merely learning new thing, but also learn from the past. We do reflection on our classroom to know whether our work is good or no. This is in line with the statement of Burns (2010:143), all good teachers do reflective teaching. Reflection is just like a mirror. We do introspection for what we have done. It is a ...