A SURVEY STUDY OF STUDENTS PERCEPTION IN USING GOOGLE CLASSROOM IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION DEPARTEMENT OF ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA

Abstract

With technological advances, nowadays learning is no longer bound by space, distance and time. Online learning offers learning process which can be done not only in the classroom but any places and every time. One of the example from online learning is Google Classroom. The purpose of this research is to identify the challenges of using Google Classroom as a learning tool for students of English Language Department Islamic University of Indonesia. The method of this research is quantitative research and this research adapted the Al-khatiri (2015) questionnaire as the instrument to collect the data. This research involved 126 students of English Language Department in Islamic University of Indonesia, consist of 3 batches there are 2014, 2015 and 2016. The highest average from the data questionnaire is X ̅ = 1.51, the highest average is derived from the questionnaire number 4 (Google classroom saves time and effort by doing and submitting an ssignment electronically). The finding can be interpreted as the students feel that most challenging aspect in using Google Classroom is not very helpful for them to minimize their time and effort in doing and collecting the assignment.