STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ABOUT AN ONLINE EXTENSIVE READING COURSE WITH THE HELP OF EDMODO

Abstract

Extensive reading has been widely known to be beneficial to language learning of students at all levels. However, it is not always carried out successfully for some reasons such as materials shortage or lack of checking schemes. This paper describes an online-extensive reading course with the help of Edmodo which was set up to help second year students improve their reading skills  at School of Foreign Languages - Thai Nguyen University (SFL - TNU). The paper is devided into two main sections. First, the paper reveals how an online extensive reading course was set up and operated and how the teacher could check students’ readings using Edmodo. Second, the paper presents the data of books from the library that arouse students’ interests and their attitudes toward the course. The research results suggest what materials may meet students concerns, what they think about the course and can serve as a model for small projects that could be done in reading classes in the settings of regional universities.