Reflective practice remains the dominant model for the professional development of teachers
in the early twenty first century. A large body of research discusses this area from various
theoretical standpoints, however, despite numerous calls to expand this research position,
scant attention has been paid to the question of what happens when professionals attempt to
carry out a process of reflective practice through talk. The few studies that have investigated
this area claim to find little evidence of reflection occurring. This study directly engages this
question by empirically investigating an interactional context where the institutional goal is
to reflect on the participants’ professional actions through talk: the post-observation feedback
meetings of a TESOL teacher-training certificate course.