Improving the Students’ Motivation in Learning English through Google Meet during the Online Learning

Abstract

The increase number of Covid-19 outbreak has profoundly changed our education system. This condition has led the teachers to alter the face-to-face learning into online learning. Online learning emphasizes on the internet-based courses synchronously and asynchronously. Besides its technical problems, conducting online learning was said to be monotonous since the teachers preferred doing online tasking to providing effective learning experience. Further, this condition led to low students’ motivation in learning English. In other words, the students might be in boredom to participate and engage in the teaching- learning process owing to the monotonous learning. Most students were said to be late or even reluctant to complete the assignments. Therefore, the researcher conducted the Classroom Action Research dealing with the use of Google meet to improve the students’ motivation in learning English during the online learning. The research subject was the 7th grade students of SMP Negeri Satu Atap Jarit. The research was conducted in two cycles. In cycle I, it showed that there was an increase of students’ motivation in learning English. The increase of students’ motivation was 61, 8%. Meanwhile, in cycle II, the researcher found that the Google meet significantly improved the students’ motivation in learning English. The increase of students’ motivation was 79, 4%. The result showed that the students actively participate and engage in the teaching-learning process. The students were very enthusiastic to respond and answer the some questions, and share their ideas related to the topic of the meeting. In addition, the increase of students’ motivation influence the students to compose sentences correctly related to the given assignments. Based on the result of data analysis, the researcher drew a conclusion that the use of Google meet significantly improved the students’ motivation in learning English during the online learning.Keywords: Google meet, Learning English, Students’ Motivation

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“…In accordance with the current results, previous studies also reveal the need for promoting interaction in online learning including video conferences and presentations (Efriana, 2021;Nartiningrum & Nugroho, 2020;Putra, 2021;Yaşar, 2020). Abuseileek (2012) stresses in his research the significance of computer-based environments for decreasing students' anxiety in helping them feel less shy.…”

“…GC is regarded highly effective in supporting learners' motivation and confidence while helping instructors to complete scores and provide information and course materials without a time limit (Amin & Sundari, 2020;Khalil, 2018). In parallel with these findings, the research by Putra (2021) emphasizes that GM also provides effective learning process as the research concludes "the use of GM could significantly affect students' motivation in learning English during the virtual learning" (p.35). GM is considerably helpful to make students enthusiastic about responding and answering questions and to increase students' participation in speaking activities.…”

“…Research shows that GM improves learners' self-efficacy and motivation (Ningias & Indriani, 2021;Putra, 2021) leading to increase in participation and to enhance speaking skills (Fakhruddin, 2018). GM provides many features for any kind of meetings and helps teachers to organize online live conferences.…”

“…The literature review shows that several studies reveal the benefits of technology for EFL learners in online education in terms of improving learners' interaction, vocabulary knowledge, communicative skills, speaking performance and alleviating their speaking anxiety by motivating them to feel more confident and more relaxed (Alkan & Bümen, 2020;Banafshi et al, 2020;Gleason & Suvoalrov, 2011;Khalil, 2018;Ningias & Indriani, 2021;Putra, 2021;Syakur et al, 2020;Tirtanawati, 2020). Attempting to compare EFL learners' improvement in vocabulary in two different settings, in class and online environment, Banafshi et al, (2020) found out that some features of communication such as "answering others' comments, the stickers, and humour were more dominated in the online classroom" (p. 136).…”

“…By the same token, Miftah (2011) points out that using presentations motivates students to participate and effectively increases interaction. From a parallel view, Putra (2021) highlights the idea that online courses are tended to be monotonous and boring for students if teachers do not vary their online classes with various activities and strategies. He finds that video conferencing motivates students and raises their success in learning process.…”