The role of learners’ memory in app-based language instruction: the case of Duolingo.

Iro Vasileiou; Diana Pili-Moss

doi:10.14705/rpnet.2022.61.1485

The role of learners’ memory in app-based language instruction: the case of Duolingo.

Iro Vasileiou
, Diana Pili-Moss

Professorship of English Didactics

University of Lancaster

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Intelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data : short papers from EUROCALL 2022
Editors	Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, Branislav Bédi, Linda Bradley, Kolbrún Friðriksdóttir, Hólmfríður Garðarsdóttir, Sylvie Thouësny, Matthew James Whelpton
Number of pages	6
Place of Publication	Voillans
Publisher	Research-publishing.net
Publication date	12.12.2022
Pages	364-369
ISBN (Electronic)	978-2-38372-015-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2022.61.1485
Publication status	Published - 12.12.2022
Event	EUROCALL Conference 2022: Intelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data - University of Iceland (online), Virtuell, Iceland Duration: 16.08.2022 → 19.08.2022 https://vigdis.hi.is/en/events/eurocall-2022/

Research areas and keywords

Didactics of English as a foreign language
digital EFL learning
inguistic skill transfer
ICALL feedback
communicative language teaching

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Vasileiou, I., & Pili-Moss, D. (2022). The role of learners’ memory in app-based language instruction: the case of Duolingo. In B. Arnbjörnsdóttir, B. Bédi, L. Bradley, K. Friðriksdóttir, H. Garðarsdóttir, S. Thouësny, & M. J. Whelpton (Eds.), Intelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data : short papers from EUROCALL 2022 (pp. 364-369). Research-publishing.net. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2022.61.1485

Vasileiou, Iro ; Pili-Moss, Diana. / The role of learners’ memory in app-based language instruction: the case of Duolingo. Intelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data : short papers from EUROCALL 2022. editor / Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir ; Branislav Bédi ; Linda Bradley ; Kolbrún Friðriksdóttir ; Hólmfríður Garðarsdóttir ; Sylvie Thouësny ; Matthew James Whelpton. Voillans : Research-publishing.net, 2022. pp. 364-369

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Vasileiou, I & Pili-Moss, D 2022, The role of learners’ memory in app-based language instruction: the case of Duolingo. in B Arnbjörnsdóttir, B Bédi, L Bradley, K Friðriksdóttir, H Garðarsdóttir, S Thouësny & MJ Whelpton (eds), Intelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data : short papers from EUROCALL 2022. Research-publishing.net, Voillans, pp. 364-369, EUROCALL Conference 2022, Virtuell, Iceland, 16.08.22. https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2022.61.1485

The role of learners’ memory in app-based language instruction: the case of Duolingo. / Vasileiou, Iro; Pili-Moss, Diana.
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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Vasileiou I, Pili-Moss D. The role of learners’ memory in app-based language instruction: the case of Duolingo. In Arnbjörnsdóttir B, Bédi B, Bradley L, Friðriksdóttir K, Garðarsdóttir H, Thouësny S, Whelpton MJ, editors, Intelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data : short papers from EUROCALL 2022. Voillans: Research-publishing.net. 2022. p. 364-369 doi: 10.14705/rpnet.2022.61.1485

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