“…By reading reflective journals written by students, teachers can find out students' beliefs about assignments and how to do assignments, so that teachers can help students to develop more effective learning strategies in the classroom (Horwitz, 1988). In addition to developing metacognitive awareness, journals writing can also help foster student metacognition in writing, namely awareness of knowledge and task completion efforts, monitoring the process and quality of results obtained, and habits to plan, set goals, and implement certain strategies in completing assignments (Ramadhanti, Ghazali, Hasanah, Harsiati, & Yanda, 2020).…”