Viabilidad de Duolingo como aplicación educativa en el aprendizaje autónomo y la educación a distancia

Abstract

Abstract: In the research carried out it is considered that there is a lack of innovation in the way of receive and give knowledge in language learning, which is why it was proposed to analyze the viability of Duolingo as a support tool in distance education and in autonomous learning, with the purpose of encouraging self-taught learning and the use of this educational application in classes. For this work, the methodology was used with research component, the type of research was descriptive and the method was used statistician, then the sample was obtained from the 2nd year of high school in Sciences parallel C of Colegio García Moreno, afternoon section, whose total number is 30 students. The results of the survey reveal that the students, after having used the educational application, they expressed themselves positively regarding the intention to wanting to use said application to learn a new language, as well as interest of using an educational application to learn a topic of interest to you and in a way self-taught in his free time at home.