GOOGLE CLASSROOM AS A MEDIA TO DEVELOP STUDENTS’ CRITICAL THINKING OF ENGLISH WRITING

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Google Classroom is not only media for teaching learning but also a media to develop students’ critical thinking. This study focuses on how Google Classroom as a media developed students’ critical thinking in teaching writing and finds teacher’s perception dealing with this issue. This is a descriptive qualitative research since it is used to explore the students’ critical thinking based on the Cottrell’s theory. The subjects of this study were students of X Accountant 1 and 2 and teacher of SMKS Bina Banua Banjarmasin. To collect the data, observation, and interview were used as the instruments.  The results showed that Google Classroom helped students to develop 8 aspects of critical thinking such as; a sense of audience, clarity, analysis, sequence, selection, best order, group similar points, and signposting. The teacher had positive perception about using Google Classroom in writing as Google Classroom is very effective as a learning media.