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Covid-19 pandemic had affected all segments of life, including education. Education which so far carried out face-to face has now been implemented virtually. The online learning model raises various problems, such as decreased motivation and students’ learning outcomes.Those problem can be solved by using distance learning technology, such as Google Meet. This study aims at determining the difference in motivation and students’ learning outcomes as well as testing the effectiveness of learning in the experimental class compared to the control one. This study was carried out with a quasi-experiment. The experiment class uses Google Meet, while the other uses WhatsApp. The population of this study was all students of Cepokjajar 2 Elementary School with a total of 294 students, while the sample was class 5A and 5B with 29 students on each other. The data analyzed by the Independent T-test to find the difference beetwen the experimental class and the control one, and the N-gain Score to determine the effectiveness of each class in developing students’ motivation and learning outcomes. The Independent T-test result shows that: 1) there are differences in learning motivation between the experimental and control class with the significance value of 0.009 < 0.05; 2) there are differences in learning outcomes between the experimental and control class with the significance value of 0.005 < 0.05; 3) learning in experimental class is more effective in increasing students’ motivation and learning outcomes than in control one.

Abstract-This paper reports a study on a teaching and learning practice in three big-sized English classes incorporating the learning goal set by the students and that by their institution, which investigated three questions: 1) What do the students perceive at a text-based teaching and learning?; 2) What problems do the students face at the text-based teaching and learning class?; and 3) What do the students learn at the textbased teaching and learning? The subjects of this study were 208 first year students of a state engineering institute in Lampung, Sumatera, Indonesia. The 208 students were from 3 different classes. The teaching and learning activities were based on academic texts selected by the students in a group of ten. In every meeting a group of the students who had prepared a two-page English academic text presented its title and key words to the class, whereas the other groups asked questions based on the title and key words which had to be answered by the group orally. In every meeting at the end of the class the students were asked to write a journal according to the research questions. The results showed that they perceived the teaching and learning practice differently, they had some problems, but they learnt some linguistic elements and skills, and they realized that they still needed to improve their English skill as well as their participation in speaking.