Abstract :
In 2020, the outbreak of the coronavirus Covid-19 affected life around the
world. Covid-19 has recently changed many aspects of the human life pandemic
that has spread across the globe. In this situation, the Internet plays an essential
role in teaching and learning English. This situation forces both the educators
and the learners to use several methods to carry out the teaching and learning
process, including Instructional Technology Approaches, to develop learning
instruments. English language teaching uses the Instructional Technology
Approach with three categories: Hardware Approach, Software Approach, and
System Approaches. This study objective related to this situation is about the
students? perception of Google Classroom?s use, the benefits, and the obstacles to
using Google Classroom.
The framework of this was organized by the writer by examining students?
perception toward the use of Google Classroom as online learning platform while
distance learning. The writer used students? perception on the level of the
agreement through a way of students? feeling or acting toward this current
situation. In this research, the writer used qualitative research that focused on
percentage and word description by using Likert-scale. The questionnaire was
given to 60 respondenst from eleven grades at SMKN 5 Bandar Lampung.
The result of this research indicated most of the students gave positive
perception while using Google Classroom as a learning platform. However, in
this research, the writer finds out some drawbacks in EFL learning by using
Google Classroom as students online learning platform.