In today’s rapidly evolving world, young people increasingly need to be autonomous learners, capable of setting goals, devising learning strategies, and reflecting on their performance. The challenge educators face is to find the time and means to support their learners to develop these capabilities within the context of compulsory EFL education.

This presentation explores the development of a custom-made Moodle-based web application designed to facilitate learner reflection in EFL classes at a Japanese university. The application enables teachers to guide students in setting goals and self-evaluating, helping to foster a more student-centered learning environment. By leveraging technology, reflection is streamlined, and information is presented in a format that makes sense to modern learners.

The presentation begins with an overview of the situational factors that prompted the creation of the web application. The presenter walks attendees through the application’s main features: guided goal setting, weekly self-evaluation, and goal review history. The key findings from the first phase of a research project are shared, with questionnaire results providing insight into student perception of goal setting, and web application usage data revealing links between the level of difficulty of goals set and students’ self-ratings.