Make a video recording of one of your classes (remember to tell your students what you are doing and why), or use the recording you made for section 1.1 of this module.

If at all possible, work with a colleague or friend (they do not necessarily have to be a language teacher).

Watch the tape together. Your friend's job is to pause the tape whenever they notice something interesting, puzzling or intriguing. You too can pause the tape whenever you like (if you are working on your own you'll obviously have to do all the pausing!)

At each pause, talk about what was happening at that moment in your class and why. Make an audio-recording of your commentaries to play back later.

Listen to the audio recording of your commentaries in private. Try to imagine you are listening to a stranger speaking - this may help you focus on what is actually caught on the tape, rather than all the other things you know about yourself as a teacher. Alternatively, if you are working with a colleague, you could exchange tapes and analyse each other's commentaries.

What do the commentaries reveal about the teaching beliefs and principles of the 'stranger' you have recorded?

Choose two or three points that you have observed in your commentary. Spend some time thinking about these. Are they consistent with your other beliefs and principles? Are they consistent with SLA research findings or theory? (If you aren't sure, maybe you can find the answer in the remaining DELPHI modules, which cover a broad range of aspects concerning language learning and teaching). Now that you have made these aspects explicit, do they still feel 'right'? Why (not)?, etc.