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User evaluation of the busuu language learning app
Fernando Rosell-Aguilar @FRosellAguilar
School of Languages and applied linguisticsThe Open University
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Overview
• Apps for language learning • Survey• Results• Final thoughts
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Apps for language learning• New market since 2007 (iPhone) + iPad 2010• “Game changer” (Goodwin-Jones, 2001)
– Functionalities– Competitors followed (Android, Windows...)
• 100 billion apps downloaded by 2015• Potential for ubiquitous learning opportunities, ease of
use, collaborative potential, content access, productivity (Murphy, 2011)
• Fits with constructivism; use of authentic materials; informal and lifelong learning; learning objects; CALL; MALL theories and practices of just in time teaching.
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Apps for language learning• “Super powers” (Sweeney & Moore, 2012)
– Screen size– touch screen– enhanced text entry– high-quality image, audio and video playback, recording, editing and
sharing– voice recognition– storage– Fast connectivity– Geolocation– Bluetooth connection(Goodwin-Jones, 2011)
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Apps for language learning• Research:
Wide ownership, enjoyable (Khaddage & Latemann, 2013) Some indications of language learning improvement:– Reading (McLanahan et al, 2012; Harmon, 2012)– Listening (Lys, 2013, Kim, 2013)– Vocabulary (Yildiz, 2012)– Verb conjugation (Castañeda & Cho, 2013)– Character writing (Shinagawa, 2014, Rosell-Aguilar & Kan, 2015)
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Research questions
• Who uses the busuu app? What for? How do they use it?
• What do users think of the busuu app? What features do they like best / least?
• Do users think that using the app has improved their knowledge and use of the language(s) they are learning? Which skills do they think they have improved most?
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Survey
• 30 questions• 2 languages • Open for 3 weeks in May 2016• Distributed through in-app message• 4095 respondents (2265 English / 1830 Spanish)• First large-scale survey of independent app
users
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Respondents
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Respondents
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Respondents
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Use
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Use
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Use
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Use
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Use
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Use
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Expectations
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Expectations
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Opinion
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Opinion
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Opinion
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Opinion
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Opinion
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Opinion
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Opinion
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Assessment
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They want more!
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Final thoughts
• Very positive views of using the app as conducive to LL• Some formal use with planned sessions• Positive evaluation of automated feedback• Speaking practice is most wished-for but...• devices offer interaction• other apps offer different options• Is a dashboard the future?
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Questions? Comments?