A study is reported of the use of a personal journal as a tool for transferring learning from the training room to the workplace. The targeted learning event was an English for Communication training programme. This programme was an intensive four-day course that grouped together participants from the non-UK sites of the aircraft manufacturer Airbus. The methodology centred on measuring the extent to which the learners' autonomy increased over time. The global focus of the analysis was a qualitative evaluation of learner perception of autonomy and of the relative value of the evaluated transfer task. The results from one specific session of the course were compared to three other sessions that did not use the personal journal.