Review of The Contribution of Google Docs in Teaching

JELTE: Journal of English Language Teaching and Education

Vol.2 No.1 2021 
 
 
 
 
E-ISSN: ISSN: 2746-5012 
as technical problem (formatting issue, tool upgrading, etc), the students lack of skill, 
difficult to understand peers’ comment, and difficult to control peers’ contribution.
Discussion
The result conveyed that the journals have similarities result. The fifth journals talked 
about the communication between teacher and students, students motivation during writing 
activity using google docs, and students perception on google docs in writing class. More 
specific, all of the journals worked collaboratively and worked in pair or group. From the 
finding of this research, the students and teacher communicated by comment section or 
chatting. According to Vens (2010:57), the one communication tool conspicuously absent 
from the Google Documents collaborative writing environment is chat. Chat can provide 
team members immediate feedback and greater social presence (Holmes & Gardner, 2006; 
cited in Vens 2010:57). It means that helped the students to clear the writing activity and 
make them feel free shared their ideas. In addition, students motivation increased by 
communication especially giving feedback from the teacher, pair or classmates.
In generally, all of the journals talked about the succesful of google docs in the 
classroom. Even though, it showed students problem while using google docs such as 
technical problem and internet error. For technical problem it difficult to work and made 
students deleted the document. Even though the students can utilize google docs, they can 
not use it if the internet connection is bad or internet error. Although, google docs can work 
without internet, but better use it with internet. At the end the students could handle it and 
have positive responses of google docs. It means, the research of use google docs in writing 
were successed. The students successed utilized and took advantage google docs to improve 
their writing skill. Beside that the teacher’ role also important in helping students during 
writing process.
On the other hand, each studies had differences procedures. In doing the procedures 
created to know the students writing process and the achievment of writing used google docs. 
In the first study ‘Impact on Students Motivation of Integrating Google Docs within a 
Remedial English Writing Class’, it did not explained the procedure to the students used 
google docs in writing. The study only showed the interviewed question and the result. 
Second study ‘Exploring the potential of Google Doc in Facilitating Innovative Teaching 
and Learning Practice in an EFL Writing Course’, it showed complete steps and also put the 
way the students and teacher used google docs to help them in writing activity. Third, 

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