THE USE OF JOURNALS TO
DEVELOP GRAMMATICAL
ACCURACY IN WRITING
Walaipun Puengpipattrakul1
Abstract
The researcher proposes, in this paper,
her action research with a quasi
quantitative and qualitative design, to
provide some important insights into the
use of journal writing as a means to
improve grammatical accuracy of firstyear
university Thai undergraduates with
no prior exposure to journal writing in
English. The data on the undergraduates’
grammatical accuracy were analyzed
through their journal entries covering both
dialogue-journaling and process-writing
entries, while their opinions of journal
entries and grammatical accuracy were
obtained through their dialogue
journaling entries and interview
responses. Findings are discussed, and
recommendations for future research are
made. It is also hoped that journal writing
can be another useful learning activity and
a teaching alternative to enhance EFL
undergraduates’ grammatical accuracy in
English.
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