Google Classroom is a learning management system for school with the aim
of making paperless assignments, distributions and assessment easier. Google
Classroom acts as a medium or tool that can be used by teachers and students to
create online class or classes virtually, where lecturer or teacher can provide an
announcements or assignments to students who are receive directly (real time) by the
students. To answer the problems that have been formulated, the purpose of this
research is to know how Google Classroom used to support English learning, to know
the students’ interest in using Google Classroom application that applied in English
learning, and to find out the student learning outcomes in English learning using
Google Classroom application.
The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative, conducted
systematically reflective of various actions taken by the actors, ranging from planning
to actual assessment in the classroom in the form of teaching and learning activities to
improve learning conditions
The results of this research are the Google Classroom application make
student fun in learning, so the students feel comfortable in learning something. So
learning is no longer a burden and students dare to continue to explore and
experiment with the knowledge they learn. In addition, e-learning method in Google
Classroom-based has provided convenience and fluency in the teaching and learning
process for teaching staff and students, the Google Classroom also can increase the
intensity of interactive communication with students outside of official learning hour.
This method also gives flexibility to the lecture in providing access to students to
obtain during face-to-face meeting. The implication in the future, students will have a
high competitiveness, depth in the knowledge they have learned and of course have a
better achievement grades.
For university, with the results of this research, it can be done with the same
object but the scope is wider than this research, so the conclusion can be generalized
for all English department all over Indonesia. For future research, it can be seen more
closely related to the lecturers’ responses from the use of Google Classroom in
conducting the learning process.