As it is known journals can be an useful tool in a second language learning process. Even though some difficulties could arise, as students reluctant to write, just as an example. There can be descried some clear advantages triggered by journals due to that it can reveal useful analysis in a learning process that cannot be obtained by other techniques of feedback. In the same way students are actively present in their own learning process, also have a more general view on their own learning and also a journal can directly generate better teacher´s decisions about instruction. I think that the idea of writing something that even is not scored in the class could not look so attractive for modern students. Journal should be fostered by ways that make student feel more willing to write about them selves.I think that teachers could use some ways at the moment of the students writing a journal. maybe giving them more freedom not only about the content but also about the way they carry out the journal; maybe they could complement their writings adding infomation in different ways maybe with own drawings, pictures, cuttings from magazines or even designing their own book where they are going to carry out the journal and in the same way rewarding the more creative ones. I think it could be in some way usefull for make students a bit more willing to capture their perceptions about their own learning process.
Although journals sound like a bright light in the dark way of assesing, they also have their own issues that teachers should deal with. It is not that easy for us to let students go through an independant path, considering that they are not as responsible as journals demand students need to be. However, as I have already mentioed in other posts, it is always a good idea on trying something new in orer to check if it is suitable for our teaching methodology.
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