In an earlier post I argued why Duolingo was not in fact unpedagogic despite a perception among some educators that it is. I argued that Duolingo does work (to an extent) and the success in learning vocabulary through a motivating and well designed learner experience was a good example of digital learning. However, the perceptions
My Product Marketing Manager asked me this week why Duolingo was seen as unpedagogic, i.e. why it’s approach to teaching language is poor. She’s picked this up from general conversations on language learning apps within the product development team. I started off by counter arguing this – that there is a lot that is pedagogic
Been travelling in Vietnam and carrying on using French language learning apps. This meant I was off network data, and reliant on hotel WiFi which was patchy at best or no connection at all on transport across the country. This post therefore focuses on the accessibility of the apps offline. I’ve also added another one to the
I’m going to share some thoughts of learning French with a couple of elearning tools – Duolingo and Busuu. As someone who works in digital language learning I feel I need to spend time learning a language digitally. I’ve been using both tools on the desktop and the apps. I hope to make this the