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ESSAY WRITING
Titis Arum Septiani* 1610631060181@student.
Department of English Education.
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education.
University of Singaperbangsa Karawang Mobit mobit@fkip.
Department of English Education.
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education.
University of Singaperbangsa Karawang Wahyudin Fitriyana wahyudinfitriyana@staff.
Department of English Education.
Faculty of Teacher Training and Education.
University of Singaperbangsa Karawang Abstract This study aimed to investigate studentsAo perception about online learning using Google Classroom, especially in writing learning.
The research was conducted with a qualitative approach.
Data collection techniques using interviews and questionnaires.
Researcher collected around 35 participants EFL students at university in Karawang for questionnaire and 7 participants for Researcher analyzed the data used descriptive analysis technique.
The result reveal that there are positive and negative statements.
Students are agree with the statement which states that Google Classroom is useful and makes it easy to use, easy to send assignments, receive the information or material and also paperless.
But the lack of using Google Classroom as an online learning platform is they cannot understand well the material because the explanation is cannot be received maximally.
For this reason, researchers provide related suggestions that can help teachers or students in order tobe better of use Google Classroom maximally.
Keywords: Google classroom, writing, online learning, studentsAo perception.
The learning materials are widely available on the internet, students can looking for the materials on the internet Moreover, teacher and students can be done the process of learning by online.
The development of technology has produced the educational applications that can be used for online learning media.
There are a lot of application or platform that available in educational world.
But this study is focus on Google Classroom According to Iliyasu .
Google Classroom enhances the teaching and learning process.
Therefore, this study is focus on writing skill subject especially in learning essay text.
According to Oshima & Hogue INTRODUCTION In the old time, technology has grown slowly and commonly people only use for communication.
But nowadays, technology has grown rapidly.
Technology has developed in assists students to support their learning process and improve their language skill.
According to Nur Alim et al .
advances in science and technology are increasing rapidly, especially in the field of technology.
According to Aagaard .
in Nur Alim et al .
, the educational model has now proven that a majority of educational activities is inseparable from technological English Ideas.
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in Turmudi .
an essay, no matter type it is, has overall essay paragraph, body .
paragraph and concluding paragraph.
This goes further beyond each part of these three structures.
According to Berlin in Yi .
, a teacher who believes this view encourage students to develop power over their own writing without being directive, assuming that writing is a creative act and that the process is important as a discovery of the true self.
Previously, the study about Google Classroom has been conducted by several The first previous research has been done by Zeiadee M.
Khalil .
, the purpose of the research is an attempt to elicit studentsAo responses prior to using Google Applications namely Google Docs and Google Classroom in their grammar course and after doing so for the purpose of finding out the effectiveness of such applications in building a collaborative learning environment and adhering to the principles of a flipped classroom.
And the result of this study is.
Google Applications help establish a collaborative learning environment since they support teacher-tostudent and student-to-student interactions and the majority of the participants prefer using such applications for future courses given that they can benefit from the availability of teacher written feedback and the easy access to course materials.
Next previous research is from Fitri R.
Zidni & Suhupawati .
, the purpose of the research is to analyze studentsAo perception about learning by using Google Classroom.
The result of this study indicate that the use of Google Classroom is considered effective for assignments but is less effective in terms of material discussion because students can access and send the assignments easily in anywhere without having to meet directly with lecturers, the students can attend lectures anywhere and anytime but students lack understanding of lecture material.
Another previous research is from Setiadi .
, the purpose of the research is to find out the students perception on the use of Google Classroom in language learning especially the easiness on the use of Google Classroom and performance of Google Classroom in language learning.
And the result of this research is good to use Google Classroom as a media of language learning because of the students perception on the use Google Classroom have positive respond, most of students was agree that Google Classroom was easy to use and have good performance to used Google Classroom in language learning.
To fill the gap, the researcher would gather the students about their perception of using Google Classroom in learning writing especially in Essay Writing.
Researcher would gather the information from the students about the perception based on their experience of using Google Classroom especially in learning writing.
Online Learning Online learning or also called as Elearning is a learning system based on formalised teaching but with the help of electronic resources is known as Elearning.
to Novak .
in Fitri Rahmawati et al .
, the use of elearning can increase the effectiveness and efficiency of learning because it gives students a higher potential to communicate more with lecturers, colleagues, and access more learning material.
Advantages Of Online Learning:
According to (Mehra & Mital, 2.
in Dhull & Sakshi .
online learning is considered a boon due to the reasons, there are:
Accessibility.
Online learning provides accessibility due to which a student can learn from anywhere in the world.
Personalised learning.
Online Learning system enables a student to determine and process his/her learning style, content, aim.
English Ideas.
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Develops cognitive abilities.
In a study, it was found that ELearning may be effective in developing cognitive abilities of pupil teachers (Singh & Mishra, 2.
in Dhull & Sakshi .
Cost-effectiveness.
Online Learning is cost effective because less money is spent in travelling and in buying books or spending money in college context.
Promotes research.
Students are excited to publish their work when they produce something of extremely high quality .
Computer skills.
These skills are likely to be useful to them in their professional life and all future endeavors which may be in themselves marketable features of their education.
Self-pacing.
Online learning allows students to work and learn at their own pace without the time restriction.
as a definite drawback of online .
Lack of motivation.
Online learners lack motivation while studying because they easily get distracted towards any other thing.
Lack of quality.
Online Learning sometimes results in lack of quality in teaching learning Writing Writing is one of the important and Writing specialized skills that include the ability to express the writerAos opinions or thoughts clearly and efficiently.
These abilities can be achieved only if a learner masters some techniques of writing such as how to obtain ideas about what s/he will write, how to express them in a sequence of sentences, how to organize them chronologically and coherently, and how to review and then to revise the composition untuil the writing is wellbuilt (Ratnasari, 2.
in Nurdianingsih .
Types of Writing There are five main types of writing:
persuasive and creative.
(Callella, 2.
in Yanti .
Expository writing Is where the author intends to inform, explain, describe or define their subject to you.
Descriptive writing Uses a lot of great visual words to help you see the person, place or thing they are writing about.
Narrative writing Narrative writing is very common in novels, poetry and biographies.
Persuasive writing Takes on the opinion of the writer or issue the writer is writing for.
Creative writing Is perhaps the most fun type of Anything you think up in Disadvantages of Online Learning:
It is well said that technology is a good slave but bad master.
According to Dr.
Radhakrishnan in Dhull & Sakshi .
when talking of technological advancements in the country delineated that technology has taught us to sail on the water, fly in the sky but it failed to inculcate the ability as to how to live on the earth.
The disadvantages are :
Poor communication.
Sense of isolation, frustration, stress, in some cases, poor performance in learning and teaching, wasted resources and loss of revenue.
Feeling isolated.
According to Tim S.
Roberts and Joanne M.
Mclnnerney in Dhull & Sakshi .
, stress the importance of interacting with fellow learners, citing learners' feelings of isolation English Ideas.
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Mobile-friendly:
Google Classroom is designed to be It is easy to use on any mobile device.
Disadvantages Google Classroom According to Pappas.
Google Classroom:
Google Classroom Google Classroom is a part of GoogleAos Apps for Education product lineup, first debuted in 2014 just ahead of the start of the school year.
It uses GoogleAos Docs.
Drive and Gmail to make assignment creation and tracking easier for teachers, while also allowing them to make announcements, ask questions and respond to student questions in real-time.
According to Janzen.
in Subhenur Latif .
, points out the some benefits of using Google Classroom.
"Google ClassroomAs design purposefully simplifies the instructional interface and options used for delivering communication with the entire course or individuals is also simplified through .
Difficult account management Google Classroom doesnAot allow access from multiple domains .
Limited integration option Google Classroom hasnAot yet integrated with Google Calendar, or any calendar whatsoever, which may cause some problems with organizing material and assignment .
Too AugooglishAy Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Google Classroom in Online Learning According to Janzen.
in Iftakhar.
S .
, there are the advantages of Google Classroom :
Google Classroom Advantages .
Easy to use: It is very easy to .
Saves time: Google classroom is designed to save time.
Cloud-based:Google Classroom professional and authentic technology to use in learning environment as Google apps represent "a significant portion cloud-based communications tools used throughout the professional " (Mary, 2.
Flexible: This app is easily accessible and useable.
Free: Google Classroom itself is not necessarily available to First time Google users may get confused, as there are several buttons with icons familiar only to Google users.
No automated updates Activity feed doesnAot update automatically, so learners will need to refresh regularly in order not to miss important announcements.
Difficult learner sharing Learners cannot share their work with their peers, .
Editing problems They can delete any part of the assignment they want, which could cause problems, even if it happens .
No automated quizzes and tests One of the main reasons that Google Classroom cannot yet fully English Ideas.
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of 19 close-ended questions that disseminate by using Google Form.
About 35 students filled the questionnaire in Google Form by the The questionnaire questions design by the researcher that adopted to Annita Muslimah .
The questionnaire is designed mixing point 1 to 5 that begin with strongly disagree as 1 point until strongly agree as 5 The questionnaire designed paperless and easy to collect.
In this research, close-ended questions used scales of the Likert scale which is categorized into five agreements, those are strongly disagree (SD), disagree (D), fair (F), agree (A), and strongly agree (SA).
Interview Another instrument in this study is This is purposeful to complete and explain the answer of the The participants of the interview are about 7 students as sample which were recorded using smartphone.
The questions of the interview session are based on the questionnaire but only 14 questions of 19 questionnaire questions that researcher thought need an more explanation for the answer.
Researcher ask to all the participants with the same questions in order to get.
The selection questions for the interview designed optimally to obtain depth data about the sample.
Because of the pandemic situation, and the long distance between researcher and participant, the interview did by video call only.
In this research, researcher used five stages of procedures, they are:
First stage, the researcher looked The questionnaire was distributed for about 2 weeks to get approximately 35 participants.
Second stage, the researcher made statements and questions for questionnaire and interview.
Impersonal Speaking of a blended learning environment.
Google Classroom Google Hangouts, between teachers and learners is only possible through Google METHOD This research use descriptive qualitative method.
The methodology of this research is utilizing aims to describe phenomenon in the research the data to describe the result of research that is to find out the perceptions of EFL studentsAo in the use of Google Classroom in the process of online This study use survey research The researcher used this design because appropriate with the instrument that researcher use in this research.
Beside interview as the instrument of the research.
Because of the pandemic conditions and to follow the applicable regulations, the researcher use online platform for collecting data without face to face The participant of this research were about 30-35 students in English Department.
The techniques in qualitative analysis to gather the information, they are questionnaire and interview.
Questionnaire Questionnaire was the first technique of collecting the data in this Researcher investigate is related about EFL studentsAo perception towards onlline learning by using Google Classroom in learning writing.
The questionnaire of this study consist English Ideas.
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The questionnaire was distributed for about 2 weeks to get approximately 35 participants.
Fourth stage, the researcher conducted interviews with 7 students who were willing to be The interview was conducted via video call on WhatsApp.
Fifth stage, the researcher made a transcript in order to make it into the research results in chapter 4 The data gathered from the questionnaire were analyzed using the These procedures were adopted from Sudjana in Arrohim .
as follow:
Data from questionnaire Preparation.
The researcher checked completely names and identified of the respondents, checked the complement of the data, and checked types of data Tabulation from the initial data above, the researcher tabulated the data by counted the response for each option and put it in a table.
To know the general tendencies of the respondents in relations to the research questions as reflected in the questions of the questionnaire, the responses to each question are put into percentages used the following formula: P = the percentage of the students with the same answers.
F = the number of respondentsAo answers.
N= the number of respondents.
From the percentages of the discussed the data concerning the questions of the research.
Data from observation Data were analyzed by using steps:
Researcher difficulties and conveniences students get when using Google Classroom.
Researcher results of interview with the results of the questionnaire.
The results of the interview are used to support the data that collected by questionnaire and presented together as research
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Results The researcher presents the finding of the research about studentsAo perception towards Google Classroom mediated learning essay writing.
The data was obtained by doing interview and The questionnaire was given to students in English Education Department.
The questions of the questionnaire divided into 4th indicators that are :
StudentsAo Perception about the Benefit of Google Classroom as a Online Learning Media The first indicator is concern with the studentsAo perception about the benefit of using Google Classroom for online learning especially in this pandemic situation.
There are 5 statements in this section that are categorized into the benefit of Google Classroom.
The first statement is positive statement.
The data showed that 42,5% of respondents are fair, 32,5% are agree and 12,5% are strongly agree with the statement AuGoogle Classroom assist students to finish the tasks fasterAy.
As the sample, participant 6 argue that AuIt is quite helpful because via Google Classroom we can directly receive and send files so the steps is simple and fastAy.
The second statement is positive The data showed that 47,5% English Ideas.
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Besides, there are 25% of respondents that disagree and also 5% respondents that strongly disagree.
The third statement is positive statement.
The data showed that there are 35% strongly agree, 35% agree and also 20% of respondents are fair with the statement AuGoogle Classroom useful to support students in their current lecturesAy.
Participant 1 is agree with this statement and the opinion is AuIt is very useful as a learning media at this situation, because in this pandemic situation and students have to learn from home is really needs online learning media such as Google Classroom.
Ay.
In other hand, it showed that 7,5% of respondents are disagree and 2,5% are strongly disagree.
The fourth statement is positive statement, it showed 27,5% of respondents that strongly agree with the statement, then 25% respondents that agree and 30% respondents are fair with the statement Augoogle classroom could save time and costAy.
However, there are 12,5% respondents are disagree and 5% of respondents are strongly disagree with the statements.
according to participant 4 that said AuIt's really saving the cost and time, because we donAot have to print our task or anything.
just sould submit it to Google ClassroomAy The fifth statement is positive The data showed 25% of respondents that strongly agree with the statement, then 27,5% respondents that agree and 35% of respondents are fair with the statement Augoogle classroom allow students to get feedback Ay.
However, 12,5% respondents are Participant 2 give her opinion about the statement that said AuYes.
I got feedback, how come after working on it, the feedback will be given via the personal comment feature so it doesn't mix with the same chat classAy.
StudentsAo Perception about the Ease of Using Google Classroom as a Online Learning Media The second indicator is concern to the studentsAo percieve about the ease of using Google Classroom for online learning especially in this pandemic There are 4 statements in this section that are categorized into the ease of using Google Classroom.
The first statement is positive It showed that 52,5% of respondents are strongly agree, then 22,5% of respondents are agree, and 20% of respondets are fair.
Beside that, only 5% of respondents that disagree with the statement AuGoogle Classroom make easy to save the assignments and materialsAy.
The second statement is AuGoogle Classroom facilitate the delivery of material and collection of assignmentsAy and this is a positive statement, which 22,5% of respondents are strongly agree, 35% of respondents are agree, 32,5% of respondents are fair.
However there are 10% of respondents that disagree with the statement.
This statement also supported by the opinion of participant 5 that is AuIndeed, one of the advantages of Google Classroom itself is that it is to store documents, so it makes it very easy, it helps.
The third statements is positive The data showed 40% of respondents are stronglyy agree, 35% of respondents are agree, 12,5% are fair and 12,5% of respondents are disagree with statement Augoogle Classroom easy to check that studentsAo assignments have been sent".
This statement is supported by the answer of the participant 1 that said AuYes, we can confirm it because after sending it to the Google Classroom we will immediately see that we have been collected itAy.
English Ideas.
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This statement is positive statement.
There are only 10% of respondents that disagree with that statement.
Which is 25% of respondents are strongly agree, 32,5% of respondents are agree and also 32,5% of students are fair.
StudentsAo Perception Quality of Service Classroom Google ClassroomAy.
It is means that 10% of respondents face the obstacle when use Google Classroom.
However, there are 15% of respondents that strongly agree with the statement, 30% of respondents are agree, and 45% of respondents are In response to this statement, participant 2 said Authere are no system constraints, it's just that we don't understand the material given by the lecturersAy.
about the in Google StudentsAo Perception About the Learning Effectiveness of Using Google Classroom-Mediated Learning Essay Writing The third indicator is concern to the studentsAo percieve about the quality of service about the features in Google Classroom.
There are 3 statements in this section that are categorized into the perfomance of Google Classroom.
The first statement of this indicator is positive statement.
The data showed that there are 62,5% of respondents are strongly agree, 17,5% are agree and 20% of respondents are fair.
Beside that, there are 0% of respondent that disagree and strongly disagree.
This statement supported by the statement from participant 1 AuIt's really easy, from the first time using Google Classroom, understand how to use it because it's really simple in appearanceAy.
The second statement of this chart is Aygoogle classroom is easy to accessAy.
This statement is positive All of the respondent is agree with this statement.
There are 62,5% of respondents that strongly agree, 27,5% are agree, and 10% of respondents are fair.
This statement is supported with the answer of the participant 6 that is AuIt's very easy, we can just open it via cellphone so it's flexibleAy.
The third statement is positive The data showed something a little diffence of other statement in this section.
Which is, there are 10% of statement AuThere are no obstacles The fourth indicator is concern to the studentsAo percieve about the learning effectiveness of using Google Classroom-mediated learning essay writing especially in this pandemic There are 7 statements in this section that are categorized into the benefit of Google Classroom.
The first statement is negative It showed that 12,5% of respondents are strongly agree, 7,5% are agree, 22,5% are fair.
Beside that, 52,5% of respondents are disagree, and 5% of respondents are strongly The percentage means that most of respondents that disagree with the statement AuGoogle Classroom is the suitable media for discussionAy which most of respondents argue that Google classroom is not the right media for discussion activity.
Participant 5 give her opinion about this statement which said AuIn my opinion, it is not quite right because the discussion was not effective and the explanation from the lecturer was not optimalAy.
The second statement is AuThe material presented through google classroom can help students to learn and understand lecture materialAy.
This is a negative statement.
There are 10% of respondents are strongly agree, 15% are agree, and 52,5% of respondents are English Ideas.
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Participant 7 argue that Auif it helps in studying it is very helpful, but if it is to understand the material it can be said that it is rather difficult because sometimes the lecturer does not explain in detail the material providedAy.
The third statement is positive The data showed that 35% of respondents are strongly agree, 17,5% are agree and also 35% respondents are However, there are 12,5% respondents that disagree with the statement AuStudents feel motivated to complete assignments through Google Classroom because of the deadline that given by the lecturerAy.
Participant 1 said Auyes, because the Google Classroom has a deadline, so we have to do it as fast as possible so that it finishes before the deadlineAy.
The fourth statement is AuStudents can understand the material that given through Google ClassroomAy.
This statement is negative statement.
There are 10% of respondents that strongly agree with the statement, then 17,5% are agree, and 47,5% are fair.
Beside that, 22,5% of students are disagree and 2,5% are strongly disagree.
Participant 6 said AuI don't really understand, sometimes lecturers or other groups who are presenting, send it via power point, but the power point is just the points, so I don't understand and have to ask againAy.
The fifth statement is positive It showed that 10% respondents are strongly agree, 30% respondents are agree and 42,5% of respondents are fair.
In other side, there are 17,7% respondents that disagree with statement AuGoogle classroom is useful in writing learning processAy.
For this statement, participant 4 argue that AuIt is very easy, because we can assignment without having to print it firstAy.
The sixth statement is AuGoogle classroom increases productivity in learning writingAy.
This statement is positive statement.
There are 17,5% of respondents that strongly agree, 25% respondents are agree, and 40% of respondents are fair.
Beside that, there are 17,5% respondents are disagree with the statement.
The last statement is positive The data showed that 15% respondents are strongly agree with the statement, 42,5% respondents are agree, and 37,5% of respondents are fair with statement AuGoogle classroom make students easier to complete essay writing assignmentsAy.
However, there are 5% of respondents that disagree with the statement.
Discussion The first reason why this study get the positive perception is because almost all participants agreed that Google Classroom has benefits for them for learning.
Google Classroom is a free online platform that allows students to create and share their own lessons with teacher or other students.
Google Classroom is created for the benefit of online learning.
The features is made and suited to the needs of students and teachers in courses.
According to Albantani .
in Setiadi .
Google Classroom is actually designed to facilitate lecture interaction with students in cyberspace, it provides opportunity for lecturers or teachers to explore scientific ideas they have for students.
According to Edtechtecher .
Teachers and students are able to assignment into a quick.
Google Classroom can help students complete assignments faster because of the feature of due date setting that make students do the task quickly.
One of the English Ideas.
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Students feel that they have to do the assignment before the due date expires.
Using Google Classroom can minimize their cost and time as the explanation of the participant it is because Google Classroom is not consume to much of quota and also paperless, students doesnAot have to print out the task or anything, they only should submit their assignment to Google Classroom.
According to Setiadi .
Google Classroom make it easier for teachers and students to make, share collect their assignment without using paper, facilitate teachers to interaction with their students in cyberspace everytime and everywhere.
And another essential benefit is google classroom allow students to get feedback from the lecture easily because the lecture may give the feedback by the comment of the section of Google Classroom.
The feedback is helpful for the students to evaluate and impove their knowledge.
It is related with the reserach of Shaharanee, et.
state that Google Classroom makes the process of submitting assignment easier, the students get the feedback from teacher, and could be easily contact the teacher used Google Classroom.
Google Classroom ability to save the materials from the lecturer and The data stay at the application except someone deleted it.
It is related with the research of Mustaniroh .
state that Google Classroom as a media of learning can repeat the learning material and the material can be opened anytime.
For storing material it really makes it easy because it actually saves safely, like links, documents, so there's no missing Google Classroom if it's not archived.
Teacher easily to share the materials and assignment for the students and students also easy to get the information such as materials, links, and also the Beside that Google Classroom also ability to check that the students has been sent the assignment, the notification will be appear.
According to Pradana and Harimurti .
is a product from Google for education that very special because it has a lot facilities in it, such as giving announcements or assignments, collect assignments and check the assignment.
One of the ease of using Google Classroom is the display is easy to understand and also it is very easy to Google Classroom.
participants argue that the features of Google Classroom easy to use and According to Fitri et al .
They argue that both the process of downloading, installing and running applications is quite easy because the features in the application are easy to understand and the instructions are Beside that, according to the participant, they are doesnAot face the obstacle of the system of Google Classroom.
Although sometimes occured some obstacle or errors, it is because of the bad signal of their phone.
According to Edtechtecher .
Google classroom automatically creates an assignment calendar for students and teachers to remind about assignment For the most of the participants, the due date setting in Google Classroom motivated to do the assignment fastly because as the statement from the participant a lecturer will cut their point if they are late to submit the assignment they score will be lost at least 20 point.
This is why students should do the assignment fastly.
Google Classroom also useful in learning writing process.
Some of participant argue that Google Classroom is suitable for learning They only should download the material and also the task from the English Ideas.
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Beside of the positif perception, there are negative statement also.
The negative perception come from the to the The perception is about the effectiveness of learning by using Google Classroom.
Most of the participant argue that Google Classroom is unsuitable for discussion media.
It is happend because according to the participant the discussion was not effective.
The other negative perception is participant feels that they are not understand well to the materials that given through Google Classroom.
They feels difficult to understand because the explanation from the lecturer is not clear.
According to Fitri et al .
the use of Google Classroom cannot replace face-to-face lecture activities, because students lack understanding of lecture material through lectures using this application.
Some of the participant are argue that verbal explanation is better that unverbal explanation.
They are agree that Google Classroom is helpful but the lack is difficult to understand the materials that given through Google Classroom.
This result of this study is related with the previous research titled AuStudentAo perception on the use of Google Classroom in Language LearningAy by Setiadi .
The differences of thie study with the previous research is about the design qualitative method but the previous research use quantitative methode.
Beside that, the kind data collection is little bit different, the researcher use questionnaire and interview, and the questionnaire to collect the data.
And the results are almost the same which is research has a good respond because students was agree with the easiness of the use of Google Classroom and Google Classroom Google Classroom can facilitate the students in language learning process because through Google Classroom, students is easy to get information or announcement, do and submit their task or assignment, and also students can save their learning material and use it everytime and everywhere students Beside that, there are some disagreement from the participant.
There are no difficulties in practical because the features is easy to know what is the function itself.
But students lack understanding of the materials is less in terms of material discussion.
Because learning by using Google Classroom is not face-to-face meeting and only online activities then it id caused students a lack to understanding the materials well.
CONCLUSION
The findings of this research is divisible into two ways that are positive perception and negative perception.
Positive perception is explain the agreement of the students of using google classroom especially for learning writing.
They are agreed that Google Classroom is effective to facilitate teacher and students in the process of learning.
They agreed that Google Classroom has a benefit for the students such as make easier the process of submitting assignment, facilitate the students in getting the feedback from the teacher, easy to get the announcement, information, materials and task or assignment, and the other benefits that has been explain in findings.
Afterwards, there are also negative perception that explain the disagreement of the students.
Most of they are refuted that Google Classroom is a suitable media for They argue that discussion in Google Classroom is uneffective.
They are also argue that they can not really English Ideas.
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