The benefits of journal to improve writing skills.

Abstract

The journal is a tool that serves as a strategy to improve English language skills, especially writing skills. Several aspects interrupt this improvement process for students, for the same reason this research objective is to describe the use of the journal as a didactic resource to improve writing skills in English language teaching students. The methodology applied to this research is qualitative, phenomenological. The information was collected through interviews based on opened-ended questions that were directed to teachers of the Universidad Estatal Peninsula de Santa Elena. The analysis of the research results was collected through keywords according to the interviews. As a result, the teachers consider that the use of the journal allows students to enrich their writing skills, since, through this strategic tool, students can practice, learn, organize, study, and revise their writing more and more for improvement.