Students’ Views: Learning English Online with Google Classroom and Skype

Abstract

 When COVID-19 spread in Ho Chi Minh City, resulting in the closure of education providers, online learning emerged as an essential mechanism to maintain the continuity of study. This study investigated student views on learning English online with the 2 applications Google Classroom and Skype. The respondents (n=55) completed the 45-period English for Employment course in the mode of pure online teaching at a university in Ho Chi Minh City. To collect data, a questionnaire adapted from Alsubaie & Ashuraidah (2017) was delivered and one-on-one in-depth interviews were conducted at the end of the course. Both methods of data collection were conducted over the internet. The results revealed that effort expectancy and perceived usefulness exhibited a strong relationship with students’ online learning in this case study. Additionally, the findings suggested that it was the matter of the subject that pure online teaching should be employed or it must be a combination of traditional face-to-face teaching and online teaching. In the light of these findings, this study concluded that online teaching using Google Classroom and Skype showed its potential in the process of innovation of teaching methods and forms of teaching.