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The Effectiveness of App-Based Language Instruction for Developing Receptive Linguistic Knowledge and Oral Communicative Ability
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Loewen, Shawn; Isbell, Daniel R.; Sporn, Zachary – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
Hundreds of millions of language learners around the globe study a second language with popular apps such as Duolingo, Rosetta Stone, Busuu, and Babbel. This study examined the effectiveness of one app, Babbel, for developing both receptive linguistic knowledge of vocabulary and grammar, as well as oral communicative ability in Spanish as a second…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction