The role of learners’ memory in app-based language instruction: the case of Duolingo.
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Intelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data : short papers from EUROCALL 2022. ed. / Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir; Branislav Bédi; Linda Bradley; Kolbrún Friðriksdóttir; Hólmfríður Garðarsdóttir; Sylvie Thouësny; Matthew James Whelpton. Voillans: Research-publishing.net, 2022. p. 364-369.
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T1 - The role of learners’ memory in app-based language instruction: the case of Duolingo.
AU - Vasileiou, Iro
AU - Pili-Moss, Diana
PY - 2022/12/12
Y1 - 2022/12/12
N2 - The current study investigated the role of visual short-term memory, working memory, and declarative memory as individual differences in the earliest stages of vocabulary and syntactic learning in Duolingo-based language instruction. Thirty-eight L1-Greek adults completed memory tasks and engaged in learning Navajo on Duolingo. Subsequently, vocabulary and syntax were assessed respectively via a word recognition, a word translation, and a grammaticality judgement task. Multiple regression analyses revealed an advantage for distributed practice both in vocabulary and syntax, after controlling for amount of practice. Further, declarative memory played a significant role in learning syntax and vocabulary, when measured in a word translation task. Extending the analysis for the first time to app-based environments, the results of the present study confirm the importance of declarative memory and distributed practice in adult acquisition of L2 vocabulary and syntax.
AB - The current study investigated the role of visual short-term memory, working memory, and declarative memory as individual differences in the earliest stages of vocabulary and syntactic learning in Duolingo-based language instruction. Thirty-eight L1-Greek adults completed memory tasks and engaged in learning Navajo on Duolingo. Subsequently, vocabulary and syntax were assessed respectively via a word recognition, a word translation, and a grammaticality judgement task. Multiple regression analyses revealed an advantage for distributed practice both in vocabulary and syntax, after controlling for amount of practice. Further, declarative memory played a significant role in learning syntax and vocabulary, when measured in a word translation task. Extending the analysis for the first time to app-based environments, the results of the present study confirm the importance of declarative memory and distributed practice in adult acquisition of L2 vocabulary and syntax.
KW - Didactics of English as a foreign language
KW - digital EFL learning
KW - inguistic skill transfer
KW - ICALL feedback
KW - communicative language teaching
U2 - 10.14705/rpnet.2022.61.1485
DO - 10.14705/rpnet.2022.61.1485
M3 - Article in conference proceedings
SP - 364
EP - 369
BT - Intelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data
A2 - Arnbjörnsdóttir, Birna
A2 - Bédi, Branislav
A2 - Bradley, Linda
A2 - Friðriksdóttir, Kolbrún
A2 - Garðarsdóttir, Hólmfríður
A2 - Thouësny, Sylvie
A2 - Whelpton, Matthew James
PB - Research-publishing.net
CY - Voillans
T2 - EUROCALL Conference 2022
Y2 - 16 August 2022 through 19 August 2022
ER -