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The problem of this study based on various respons on the use of reading logs to students’ undersatanding to the text they read. The purpose of this research is to find out and describe the English students' perception on the use of reading logs to promote students’ reading comprehension in Reading Academic Papers subject at English Teaching Department of UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar Registered in 2023/2024 Academic Year. The type of this research is quantitative with descriptive design. The population of this study were fourth semester students at English Teaching Department of UIN Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar with a total of 31 students. Sampling was done with total sampling technique. Data in this study ware carried out by distributing closed-ended questionnaires with five Likert scale. The instrument was constructed based on the advantages of reading logs according to several experts (Salsabila, 2021; Rahmawati, 2019; Lyutaya, 2011 as cited in Muchtar, 2023 and Cambrilearn, 2023) and component of perception according to Walgito as cited in Lele (2019), which totals 60 statement items. The questionnaire had previously been validated by 3 validators with the results of the validation test was 0.83 (Very High Validity). After that, the questionnaire was distributed by the researcher using google form to the research respondents. The result of data from respondents were analysed according to Sugiyono (2013), namely using descriptive quantitative by using software SPSS 30.0. The result of this study showed that students' perception on the use of reading logs to promote students’ reading comprehension in Reading Academic Papers subject were categorized positive with an average of 222.77. Furthermore, when examined from each component of perception, students' perception on the use of reading logs to promote students’ reading comprehension in Reading Academic Papers subject are as follows: in the cognitive component, students’ perception was categorized positive with an average of 135.03, in the affective component, students’ perception was categorized strongly positive with an average of 44.19 and in the conative component, students’ perception was categorized strongly positive with an average of 43.55.