THE APPLICATION OF GOOGLE CLASSROOM TO MOTIVATE ENGLISH NON-MAJORED STUDENTS

This research aims to report the overall view of Google Classroom application on teaching and learning English of teachers/researchers and learnersin an effort to improve their performance.To achieve the objectives, the studywas done over one semester with two classes of Commerce students at Van Lang University. In-depth interviews with the students and the teachers, and questionnaires were used as main toolsfor data collection which served as a basis for assessing the innovation of using Google Classroomeffects. The analysis of the questionnairessummarizes the results of the study as follows: In overall, both the teachers/researchers and the students considered learning using Google Classroom as a blended tool more interesting and effective than traditional ones, and the study presents some evidence on the potential of Google Classroom in teaching. Nonetheless, there still existed some problems at the end of the semester. The paper will further highlight the benefits of Google Classroom activitiesand their impacts on students motivation.