This research is motivated by the Covid-19 pandemic where teaching and learning
activities are automatically forced to be transferred to online activities and
automatically make learning media also turn online. Researchers are interested in
investigating more deeply the Google Classroom used in teaching English for students
with special needs at SD Alam Muhammadiyah Banjarbaru during the covid-19
period.
This study aims to find out how teachers use google classroom in teaching English for
students with special needs during the covid-19 period and to find out what types of
assignments are collected in google classroom in learning English for students with
special needs during covid-19.
This study uses descriptive qualitative and to collect data the researchers conducted
observations by following the offline and online teaching and learning process, and the
researchers conducted interviews with one of the English teachers at SD Alam
Muhammadiyah Banjarbaru. Based on the results of the study, the teaching media
used by English teachers in teaching were the Google Classroom application media by
applying the blended learning method and the media used by the teacher to provide
material, give assignments and collect assignments and assess the assignments.
The type of task collected in the Google Classroom is a type of comparison task where
student are asked to compare and identify the task.