Turnitin version: From an Active Learner to a Reflective Practitioner: Learning to become a Professional Indonesian EFL instructor

For teachers, professional development is a lifelong journey and a complex and multi-dimensional process.
Effective professional development requires practitioners to engage not only in training but also in habitual
reflection. However, research on reflective learning within the context of Indonesian English as a Foreign
Language (EFL) teaching, at both secondary and tertiary levels, is limited. Using the-Self Study, Qualitative
Inquiry this article explores my reflective practices in the Indonesian educational context. It is structured
around a narration of my roles as an active EFL learner and instructor which have led me to become a
reflective practitioner. The article starts with my first contact with English and then goes on to my later
learning-teaching experiences. It highlights the process of my reflective learning experience and its influence
on my practices as an EFL instructor. In doing so, it aims to encourage similar awareness and reflective
professional development in Indonesian EFL teachers. My reflection reveals that learning from experience
allows educational practitioners to improve professional competent