According to Tompkins (2008, p.98), "The purpose of journal writing is that children use journals to record personal experiences, explore reactions and interpretations to books they read and videos they view, and record and analyze information about literature, writing, and social studies and science topics". Journal forms include personal journals, dialogue journals, reading logs, learning logs, double-entry journals, and simulated journals. This type of writing is so private that the readers is usually the writer himself or herself or typically well-known and trusted. Meanwhile, Dannelle (2010) discovered that "Reflective journal writing and mentoring help foreign graduate students de-stress, learn the tacit knowledge of the academy and participate in scholarly activities like conference presentations and publishing".
Soo Hyun Kim says that dialogue journals is the good way to get to know children better by having a dialogue or conversation in dialogue journal. It affects not only relationship between teacher and children but also children’s writing in response to teachers’ requests. I totally agree with her. It's because journal writing is so private and if a teacher is the one that children can share their writing with, it means that close relationship is constructed between a teacher and a child.
Tompkins, G. E. (2008). Teaching Writing: Balancing Process and Product. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
Dannelle, S. (2010). Mentoring through reflective journal writing: A qualitative study by a mentor/professor and two international graduate students. Reflective practice, 11, 347-367.
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