This current study is to examine both EFL instructor and students concerning the use of Duolingo for English speaking proficiency. To serve this purpose, an explanatory research design was employed. A set of questionnaire and semi-structured interview developed as the primary instruments for this current study. One EFL instructor and ten EFL students in one of the private Islamic Senior High School in Situbondo, Indonesia, involved as research participants in this study. In general, they perceived Duolingo in a positive ways. The findings resulted from semi-structured interview carried out with EFL instructor and the samples of the students revealed that Duolingo facilitated him/her in managing the classwork and assessment. However, some participants also reported several drawbacks. Conclusions, limitations, and recommendations were made for the further research.

Many academic works of literature have acknowledged Google Classroom (henceforth, GC) in assisting pedagogical practices, particularly for virtual classroom instructions. Yet, there has been limited research about GC investigating participants' views about GC-mediated instructions in an EFL setting. This study investigated Indonesian undergraduate students' perceptions of GC integration in the EFL context. This sequential explanatory mixed-methods aimed to investigate the undergraduate students' views about GC utilization in the EFL domain. Six participants from a private university in Jember, Indonesia, were voluntarily involved in this study. Data were collected through a web-based questionnaire and a series of semi-structured interviews to get in-depth information with respect to their opinions related to GC integration in such a context. The findings report that GC has been recognized for its ease of use, being easily accessible, promoting teacher-student interactions, and creating a more interactive online learning atmosphere. The study concluded with the proposition that the majority of participants were affirmative in accepting GC in their virtual classroom. The analysis also revealed implications for both EFL teachers and students. Limitations and recommendations were then provided.

For more than two decades, online learning has been employed to replace f2f instructions. GC has widely recognized to manage digital learning environment. While extensive research has investigated digital classroom mediated by GoogleClassroom (GC), there is paucity of research exploring participants’ views about GC-mediated online learning situated in Indonesian higher education (HE) contexts. We employed a sequential-explanatory research (Creswell, 2018; 2014) intended to explore in-depth the undergraduate students’ perceptions about the in-class use of Google Classroom in EFL settings. There were six (N=6) undergraduate students from private Indonesia university consented to participate in this study. We administered a web-based five point Likert scale questionnaire to collect any necessary data. Also, a semi-structured interview was conducted to explore their in-depth feelings to the selected participants. The results indicated that GC offered enormous potential benefits for organizing online teaching-learning processes. Implications, conclusions, limitations, and recommendations were then discussed.