Online Interactive Journaling: Facilitating Reflections Among Indonesian EFL Students

This research aimed to find out how much online interactive journaling engenders students’ reflection and facilitates them in doing it. The sample of this research was two students from Department of English Language Education, UIN Ar- Raniry. The qualitative approach was used to reveal students’ experiences. In collecting the data, I used journal entries and interviews. The collected data was analyzed thematically. Based on the findings, students thought interactive journaling was excellent for reflections to be used. When students use journaling, the thoughts saved in their head about the previous courses can be put so that reflections can be engendered. The results of the qualitative data analysis unmistakably demonstrate that journaling can improve students’ learning. The documents and the interviews revealed a several topics that could help learners hone their critical thinking and metacognitive abilities. In addition, the interview results show that students will become accustomed to reflections and interactive journal writing if can be used as a tool in learning process.