The Effect of Non-Dialogue Journal Writing on Enhancing Students' Writing Skills

This study investigated the effects of using non-dialogue journal writing on enhancing ESL students’ writing skills. In this study, 20 secondary school students were selected as participants and descriptive analysis was used to analyse the data. In this study, the effects of using non-dialogue journal writing were investigated by comparing the mean scores on the overall writing ability based on pre- and post- writing test. The findings indicate that there was a significant difference between the mean scores of students’ overall writing ability of the use of non-dialogue journal writing in ESL writing classroom. Therefore, the findings from this study suggest teachers to implement the use of non-dialogue journal writing in ESL writing classroom due to positive effect that it offers.