The same two instruments were used as posttests. Students were assessed with the Pattern of Adaptive Learning Scales' (PALS) Academic Efficacy subscale to control for prior academic self-efficacy.
Students were assessed with a 50-question, multiple-choice English to Spanish and Spanish to English pretest covering vocabulary and grammar to control for prior Spanish language achievement. Students in the control group received their regularly scheduled English L1/Spanish L2 class learning activities. In this study, the treatment group's Spanish language instruction was through the use of "Duolingo"®, a computer and mobile app that uses gamification and adaptive learning technology to teach foreign languages. And after you do it a few times, you get used to the rhythm and the intonation from the narrator in each story.A quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest, non-equivalent control group design was used to examine the effect of a mobile gamification application on third and fourth grade students' Spanish language achievement and student academic self-efficacy. So you know that you're copying a native Spanish speaker or native of your target language. And that's because you're getting actual voice actors on each level. I think it's crucial to listen and repeat everything you hear in the stories. And although a lot of them are kind of cheesy, it's so rewarding to be able to listen to a short story and answer some questions and feel like you're actually getting somewhere with the language.
My favorite feature in Duolingo is the stories. Tip # 6: Duolingo Stories Are A Game Changer It will be more difficult, but you're going to retain a lot more doing it this way. There are also fewer matching games and more having you type in actual sentences on the desktop version. It can prevent you from paying Duolingo to refill your hearts or to use Lingots from the store to fill up your hearts. But it also ensures you won't lose hearts for answering incorrectly. Using Duolingo on a desktop computer is better for several reasons. It will improve your accent and pronunciation a ton. So what you want to do is repeat what you hear within a lesson as accurately as possible. Keep in mind, though, that speech recognition isn't great.
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