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Jiang, Xiangying; Rollinson, Joseph; Plonsky, Luke; Gustafson, Erin; Pajak, Bozena – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
Duolingo is a commercial language-teaching platform that offers free courses on the web and on mobile apps. This study reports the ACTFL listening and reading proficiency levels of adult Duolingo learners who had completed beginning-level courses in Spanish or French. The participants (n = 225) were learners residing in the United States, had…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Gascoigne, Carolyn – Foreign Language Annals, 2006
Many recent studies have examined the effectiveness of various types of input enhancement. The following study expands this line of inquiry to include technological applications of language learning by comparing the effectiveness of the computer application of diacritics to a traditional pen-and-paper process among beginning students of French and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Computer Oriented Programs, Questionnaires, Second Language Learning