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Inventory of ICT tools and open educational resources

Welcome to the inventory of freely available online tools and open educational resources for language teaching and learning developed by the ICT-REV project! The inventory contains a list of tools that have been evaluated with specific criteria in mind. Read more
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This tool was developed within the framework of a cooperation agreement between the European Centre for Modern Languages and the European Commission

Duolingo

Principal function(s): Autonomous learningGame apps

Duolingo is an app that helps learners improve their language knowledge. It makes the user follow a pathway with steps that build upon one another. Once they finish one step, they are allowed to move on to the next one. From time to time, the app makes users refresh their knowledge by retaking a quicker version of passed steps. The app is gamified so that the user is nudged into practising every day. Push notifications are a mechanism for this. Evaluation: The gamified style of the app is successful in encouraging users to keep learning a bit every day. Nevertheless, this can also be demotivating for users who fall off the track. The idea of learning by repetition and deduction also seems to work well in favour of retaining information.

Cost: Free with registration

Website: https://www.duolingo.com/

  

Categories

Type Of Interaction

  • Individual work

Skills

  • Listening
  • Speaking
  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Vocabulary
  • Grammar
  • Pronunciation

Content

  • Website/other users supply
  • You supply

Usability

Interface User-friendliness/complexity of the tool´s interface

Simple

Time efficiency Time needed for mastering the „how-to“ of the tool and a production of a task

High

Interface language(s) The number of languages in which the tool is currently available/adaptable to

English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Greek, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Hindi, Ukrainian, Russian, Corean, Hungarian, Turkish, Czech, Thai, Chinese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Dutch

Respect for privacy Does the tool require registration? Who can see my data? Can I remain anonymous?

Duolingo collects and analyses leaner data: https://ai.duolingo.com/. Duolingo can share your personally-identifiable information with third parties if it is “reasonably necessary to offer the Service” and they obtain information about learners from Third Party Services. The company’s privacy policy is available at: https://duolingo.com/privacy

Saving work for future use Possiblity to save your or others´ work for reuse/reproduction

Yes

Tailorability (If so, how?) Possibility of the tool to be used for a range of different activities (e.g. to what extent you can organize a project assignment with a central activity based on this tool)

No. The user must follow the pathway set by the app.

Interactivity

Engagement

Collaboration

Communication

Technical requirements

Installation required?

Yes

Compatibility/ Operating System

iOS, Android. Use on regular browsers also possible, but not with all functions available

Other technical requirements

None


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Principal Functions
Type Of Interaction
Group/pair work - classmates
Group/pair work - outsiders
Individual work
Presenting (e.g. lecturing, storytelling)

Skills
Listening
Speaking
Reading
Writing
Vocabulary
Grammar
Pronunciation
Intercultural

Content
You supply
Website/other users supply

 


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