Students’ Perception toward the Use of Google Classroom as Teaching and Learning English Media for EFL Students

Gede Weda Rukmana

doi:10.36663/joes.v1i2.167

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate students’ perception toward the use of google classroom as a media for teaching language. This study is a library study. This study was focused on collecting information about the definition of Google Classroom, students’ perception toward the use of google classroom, and the performance of google classroom in language learning. Google classroom is one of the platforms that used to provide the material, task, information about the course to the students that given by the teacher by online. Google classroom help the students and also the teacher to make the learning process easier during the Covid-19 pandemic. Google Classroom gave students and teacher chance to keep doing the course during the Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, this platform gets positive responses from many students. Most students were agreed that google classroom easy to be used and have good performance since it helps the students to save the file or the material that given by the teacher through google classroom easily, and also students can easily submit their work in this platform. By using Google Classroom, the teacher could do many things, such as assigned quiz to the students, gave the students video for additional source of the study, the teacher also could link many applications such as Quizizz, Google Form, Google Drive, and many more.

Highlights

The spread of Covid-19 cases almost all over the world, especially in Indonesia, has caused a lot of harm to the country
The analysis showed that the use of Google Classroom as media for the teaching and learning process had a potential to be used and it had potential of data source about the activity of the user
The conclusion that can be drawn from this study, the use of Google Classroom for the media to help the teacher and the students conduct the lesson is very helpful and it has a potential to be used for teaching every subject in the school. in conclusion, Google Classroom play a great role in making the teaching and learning process become easier

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Introduction

The spread of Covid-19 cases almost all over the world, especially in Indonesia, has caused a lot of harm to the country. To suppress the spread of the Covid-19 virus, the government has established policies that can minimize the spread of this virus This condition forces teachers to prepare online learning. In order to make the learning and teaching process still can be done during this pandemic, the government suggest that the use of online platform will help the students and the teacher able to do the teaching and learning process. Many platforms such as, google classroom, Schoology, Moodle, and many others can be used as media of learning language especially English. This platform facilitate students to access the classroom every time and everywhere

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