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.