THE USE OF GOOGLE CLASSROOM AS AN ENGLISH LEARNING MEDIA

The objective of this article was to describe the usage of Google Classroom as a media for learning English language. The method used in writing this article was literature based by collecting data and information that related to Google Classroom as a media for learning English language. The result of this study indicated that Google classroom was very potential to be developed as a media for learning English language that can be used in virtual class of teaching and learning forum on ICT based. In brief, English teachers can use the Google Classroom as an alternative media for teaching and learning English language.


INTRODUCTION
Learning is a process to make people better in knowing, behaving and doing skillfully. In the education field, learning is regarded as an improvement for some aspects such as cognitive, affective, and motoric or behavior. Those aspects are gotten from a good learning process.
Learning in the 21 st century claimed more in reaching learning objectives. It claims that the students are not only good in the cognitive aspect but also in good behavior or manner. It means that students should have competency in the cognitive and emotional aspect. It is a big challenge to all educators, parents, and students themselves in realizing the objectives of learning. Therefore, it is our responsibility to reach success in conducting learning process. It makes us to think about the factors or elements that support the learning process.
As mention earlier, the supporting and main factors of conducting the process play an important role to reach the succeed in the process. The factors include; teachers, curriculum, learning facility, and learning media.
Media is one of the most important than other factors in the teaching and learning process. It is because media is a tool that can convey messages from learning the material to students. Therefore, teachers must choose a good and suitable media in order for the message that is conveyed can be received well by the students. In addition, Susilana and Riyana (2007) state that media is a part of the communication process. It plays the role, a sender of the message is not only the teacher but also from other relevant sources of message senders to make various and active learning.
One of the medias need to be used more in teaching and learning is using  (2015) describes Google Classrooms as an application in which it enables virtual classroom. In detail, it becomes a distribution media for the task, submitting task, marking task. It has access for the teacher to manage given tasks to students in which both can be collaborated, edited, and see the task. It helps teacher to monitor the learning development. Google Classroom it self has been published since 2014 but it is not popular yet. This application is a web application which is very potential to develop further more. It will support much to the 21 st learning style.
What is needed is the creativity of teacher or other sources how to make the content presented in the media of Google

METHODHOLOGY
This article is literature based in which the data and information were gathered from the book, internet postings, journal, etc. This article was written by following steps of collecting data and information, analyzed them, and presenting the result of analyzing, and making a summary of the result.

GOOGLE CLASSROOM
One of the factors that support of learning process is the media of learning.
Sadiman (1986) in Rahayu (2011)  such as need analysis of their students' need to learn. It is also to guide the teacher in preparing the learning process virtually.

Conclusion
Based on the description in the previous section of this article, we can take the conclusion that Google Classroom is a web application that can be used as a learning media in virtual learning. The teachers need to know how to make and how to use the Google Classroom for their teaching and learning's need. Google Classroom as a learning media can be used inside and outside of the classroom as the learning sources for students.

Recommendation
As we have seen the potency of the Google Classroom as the learning media, it is recommended to develop more and more by teachers. So, the teacher needs to be trained to make and to use it. Supporting instrument such as internet connection, android or laptop need to be available while learning taken place inside or outside of the classroom.