Electronic Theses and Dissertation

This research aimed at finding out the students’ attitudes and perceptions toward the
learning of English language through Duolingo application. This mixed method study
was carried out by distributing questionnaire to 60 participants and interviewing 10
participants who were chosen from academic year 2014, 2015, and 2016. The
participants must be students who took the English language subjects as their academic
courses and also used the Duolingo to learn English language. The data of this study
were collected through closed-ended questionnaire using Likert-scale method
consisted 21 questions that were divided into 2 categories; attitudes with 7 questions
and perception with 14 questions. The results of the study showed that the mean score
of attitudes was 4.1 and the perceptions was 4.1 both the attitudes and the perceptions
of the respondents of Syiah Kuala University students toward the use of the Duolingo
application as a language learning tool is positive. In conclusion, Duolingo application
is considered as a comfortable application to use and a common application used by
university students as a learning language tool especially English.

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