Reasons for keeping a diary in a foreign language are numerous. For some, it is a tool for developing vocabulary. You look up words that you need in order to express yourself. Getting into the habit of writing routinely increases one’s contact time with a foreign language and can help maintain one’s language level. Additionally, keeping a diary in a FL is an opportunity for self-reflection and reviewing events that have happened.This study reports on the findings of a questionnaire given to 17 Japanese university students (14 females, 3 males) at the end of a 15-week course. The topic of the questionnaire was about the usefulness of keeping a diary in English. The author intended to collect information on students’ language learning strategies, but the questionnaire results reported that student’s found diaries useful for writing practice and recalling lesson content
