This study aims to investigate how student teachers\' journal writing and teacher educators\' feedback to it affect the former\'s reflective thinking as well as how student teachers perceive both journal writing and the feedback to it.
The result shows that student teachers feel unfamiliar with writing reflective journals itself and have difficulties in finding appropriate issues to write about. But it also shows that, as the time passes, they find journal-writing easier, their journals gradually improved, and, above all, it contributive to the enhancement of their reflective ability; they finally conclude that journal writing should be an essential component of student teacher\' practicum experiences. Regarding the feedback from teacher educators, student teachers report that it is helpful for the understanding of their own problems as it allows them to think deeper and to ask right questions about their problems. They also report that teacher educator\'s feedback helps them feel emotionally supported and secured. The result also shows that, regardless of whether feedback from teacher educators is given or not, the level of student teachers\' reflective thinking is meaningfully heightened when they repetitively write journals.
This study suggests that the research on specific pedagogy to educate our student teachers as reflective practitioners should be continuously carried out in order to find practical guidelines for teacher education that could work for our educational and cultural environments.