Teach and learn english with duolingo
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The document discusses Duolingo, a free language-learning platform launched in 2012, that helps students improve their English skills while translating web content. It allows learners to progress through levels by translating sentences and offers various features for tracking progress and monitoring learning behavior. Despite its success and innovative approach, it faces limitations like a lack of conversation practice with native speakers and a heavy focus on translation.
Teach and learn english with duolingo
- 1. Atula Ahuja Teaching English with
- 2. Launched in June 2012 Absolutely Free!!
- 3. IN THE CLASSROOM Secondary school ESL students in an International school who are proficient in French or German or both. The school offers language instruction in French, German and English. Grades: 8 and 9 Age: 13- 15 Level of English: Intermediate to Advanced Preferences: o Improve their English for success in IGSCE board exams. o Authentic language use for higher level of accuracy in reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary. o Some opportunities to be independent learners and design their own learning.
- 4. Currently Duolingo offers free language opportunities to speakers of these languages: French, German, Spanish Portuguese Italian English
- 5. BIRTH OF THE IDEA Same problem manifests itself on the web. Large portion of the web is partitioned into multiple languages. If you don’t know the languages in which knowledge is stored on the web, you can’t access it. The Solution is to translate all or most of the web into every major language. Humans need to communicate with each other, through a common language- to make sense of the world. Absence of such a language breaks down communication.
- 6. Google, Amazon- Kindle, Archive – digitizing books. Problems arises in digitizing old books. A book is scanned and scanned images of text to be deciphered using OCR. Machine translation would have been ideal, they are not good enough yet. Lot of absurd mistakes can happen. We need people to translate the whole web.
- 7. Utilizing time and human effort for good The solution to this is to divide this job into small chunks and get users to translate the web. This ingenious solution is called DUOLINGO- a way for learners to learn a language for free, at the same time, helping translate text from the web.
- 8. LEARN by TRANSLATING If you are a speaker of English, trying to learn Spanish Duolingo begins by giving you a sentence in Spanish and asking you to translate it.
- 9. Duolingo only gives you sentences using an algorithm based on your skill level: Beginners simple Advanced complex Learners unlock each level to progress HOW it works?
- 10. If you’re stuck at a word, you can see the possible translation. HOW it works?
- 11. The curriculum is divided into skills. Each skill comprises 2 – 10 lessons, with reading, writing & vocabulary exercises and grammar concepts. Students can track their progress and unlock the learnt skill. SKILL TREE
- 12. Content? The content owner uploads the content/text that needs translation, to the Duolingo site.
- 13. . Duolingo gives it to its students who translate it as part of their coursework When the translation is complete, it’s returned to its owner who pays for this service.
- 14. AFFORDANCES Access: Versions for desktop, ipad, iPhone or Android devices making it very accessible to students. Provides flexibility of time, independence of place. Storage and Retrieval: Student progress can be recorded electronically and accessed any time by students and teacher. Cost efficiency: Free for students. Content owners pay. Non- linearity: Students can skip between levels and reach a higher level by unlocking a skill level they have mastered. If you feel that you already know everything, you can do a test to skip all the lessons and master the skill immediately. There are some locker icons along the skill tree which you can use to skill a lot of skills in a row. Monitoring Learning behaviour and progress: Classroom support feature is being added which will allow teachers to trace student progress and address difficulties.
- 15. AFFORDANCES Control: Students can control and design their learning by contributing to the skill tree and choosing material of their choice. Authenticity: Learners get practice translating sentences both from and into the target language.. Situated Learning: Learners get to choose from a wide variety since material is uploaded by content owners from all areas. Disadvantages: No opportunity to converse with native speakers. Heavy focus on translation. Limited language availability, though more languages will be added soon.
- 16. POTENTIAL BENEFIT: I would like to use it since much of the learning happens in the form of games and rapid-fire quizzes. Learners can switch between speaking, listening, and writing. It is designed to enable learners at all levels to learn autonomously, quickly and accurately -- all for free. CONCLUSION Duolingo is an ingenious concept that has initiated a system of user-driven, crowd-sourced translations for online content while helping learners learn many languages. The project’s ultimate aim is to get 100 million people to translate the web into major languages.
- 17. Thank you!
Editor's Notes
- #3: A language learning program that enables learners to learn a new language while translating the web. It’s motto- Learn a language while giving back to the online community
- #4: Preferences: Students would like to: 12,3
- #5: More languages are coming soon
- #6: Now, a little bit about the Birth of Duolingo. Our existence on this planet depends on our communication with others in a common language For, example, large fraction of this info is in English and if you don’t know English, you can’t access it. A lot of it is in other languages and if you don’t know them, you can’t access it.
- #7: Now we have projects to digitize books. The process entails scanning a book and deciphering the images of the scanned text using Optical Character Recognition. But problem is that OCR is not very successful in recognizing characters of old books as they are faded and blurred.- Computer cannot recognise 30% of characters in books older than 50 years. Not advisable to trust it yet Why don’t we pay people to translate. Well that’s possible but would be too expensive. Translating a small portion of the web in one other language will cost about 80 million dollars The idea is to get a 100 million people to translate the whole web for free.
- #9: In Duolingo, translation is the key to learning a For example, if you are a speaker of English wanting to learn Spanish, Duolingo starts by giving you a sentence in Spanish and asking you to translate it..
- #10: Beginners get the simple sentences from the web and advanced learners get the more complex ones. Learners have to unlock each level in order to progress. This way learners of all levels become valuable translators
- #11: Then Duolingo furthers your knowledge in this context by giving you practice in application, thus enhancing your language.
- #12: This is the Duolingo skill tree.
- #13: Where does the content come from?
- #14: Who translates it