Critical reflection for empowering teachers’ practices in ELT

Resumo

Reflective teaching is a powerful tool for professional development in the sense that the teacher engages in self-monitoring of his/her own beliefs about English Language Teaching (ELT) with reflections on classroom practices and procedures. What follows is an account on important concepts 
related to critical reflections on the role of the teacher in ELT beyond the boundaries of current methodologies and an example of an actual experience with the work of acting upon one’s own pedagogy within an English learning classroom.