Evaluating the reading and listening outcomes of beginning‐level Duolingo courses

• Published in: Foreign language annals Vol. 54; no. 4; pp. 974 - 1002
• Main Authors: Jiang, Xiangying, Rollinson, Joseph, Plonsky, Luke, Gustafson, Erin, Pajak, Bozena
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Alexandria Wiley 01.12.2021; American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
• Subjects: Achievement tests; Classrooms; College students; Comparative Analysis; Computer Assisted Instruction; Computer assisted language learning; Computer Software; Control Groups; Course Content; Design; Duolingo; efficacy; foreign language; Foreign language learning; French; French as a second language; Grammar; Guidelines; Higher Education; Instructional Effectiveness; Introductory Courses; Language instruction; Language Proficiency; Listening; Listening Comprehension; listening proficiency; Online instruction; Rating Scales; Reading; Reading Comprehension; reading proficiency; Scores; Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; Software; Spanish; Spanish as a second language; Standardized Tests; Teaching Methods; Undergraduate Students; University students; United States > US

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...