Journal Article Critique 3

Citation:
Trong Tuan, Luu. (2010). Enhancing EFL Learners’ Writing Skill via Journal Writing. Canadian Center of Science and Education, 3(3) , 81-88.

This journal article mainly discuss how journal writing improve students’ writing skill. For EFL learners, English writing appears to be challenging and not interesting enough to motivate English learner to practice regularly. They don’t know how to express their feeling in the correct words. However, journal writing appear to be interesting and effective for them. They will get better if they practice a lot. Moreover, they don’t have to think much about what they want to write because the idea has already in their mind. Journal writing is a simple way to make them keep write something without any compulsion.

In this article, the researcher use 85 students as the participant. And divided into experimental group and control group. Before the research, they do a pre-test and at the end of the research, they do a post test. The result, there is an improvement in writing fluency, accuracy, scores, and motivation.

When I become an English teacher in the future, someday, I will use journal writing as one of my teaching method. Because I think it is very important to make the students interest in writing and journal writing is one of the method to make them feel in that way. All the students have to do is write everything that they want, everything that had happened to them in that day, everything that makes them excited. They don’t have to feel nervous, uncomfortable, or discourage because journal writing is not like a formal test, it is kind of personal diary that will be controlled by their teacher so that they know their mistakes and errors.