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September 10, 2025

Encouraging EFL Students’ Extensive Reading Through LMS-Based Reading Logs

Key Points

Most students exhibit positive attitudes toward LMS-based reading logs, enhancing their reading skills and motivation.
Benefits identified include improvement in reading habits and self-study skills, indicating effective learning strategies.
Challenges such as time constraints and lack of teacher support limit the effectiveness of LMS-based reading logs.
The feedback suggests ways to enhance the usage and effectiveness of these logs in EFL reading courses.

Abstract

This research explores the perspectives of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students about using Learning Management System (LMS)-based reading logs as a measure to encourage extensive reading in the digital age. An online questionnaire was administered to 125 third-year English majors at a public university in central Vietnam to examine their attitudes, preferences, and perceptions of benefits as well as challenges associated with LMS-based reading logs. The findings show that most students had positive attitudes toward LMS-based reading logs, emphasizing benefits like improving their reading skills, enhancing positive reading habits, enhancing self-study skills, and increasing their learning motivation. However, students faced several challenges when making LMS-based reading logs, including time constraints, workload, lack of cognitive skills for reflection, self-discipline issues, and insufficient teacher support and feedback. These problems can suggest some further improvements to increase the effectiveness of applying this kind of activity in EFL reading courses.

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