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Nafrianti
Raihanah Permata Sari
Development of technology
Technology playing role in education
nowadays
Mobile-Assisted Language Learning
The use of Apps to help learning
especially English language
Materials in Apps
Evaluation to determine the quality
Proportion of language to find kinds and
domination
To find out the language
proportion in Duolingo and
Memrise Apps for English
Learning
Language Skill
Listening
Reading
Speaking
writing
Language Content
Grammar
Vocabulary
MALL Apps
Memrise
Duolingo
Content Analysis
Descriptive research
10%
18%
Listening
3% Vocabulary
69% Pronunciation
Speaking
Level Writing Listening Speaking Overall
Vocabulary = Basic 1, Basic 2, Food, animal, Plural, clothes, Colour, date & time, family, jobs, Adjective,
adverb, Places, things, society, trips, education, countable noun, comparative, un-countable noun,
nature, sport, art, communication, health, politics, Business, event
Tenses = phrase, Present verbal tense, Interrogative sentences, Conjunction, Preposition, Present
Verbal tense 2, relative clause, present verbal 3, past verbal tense, to infinitive, Present perfect tenses,
to infinitive 2, Relative pronoun, Past perfect tenses, gerund, future tenses(will), future tenses(going
to), science, future perfect tense, modals, Conditional tenses, Attributives, possessive, Pronoun
2%
4%
Writing
Listening
94% Speaking
3. From those result, memrise and duolingo are not
balanced in terms of proportion of the skill. According
cunningsworth (1995) the materials are appropriate if the
proportion of the skills which are provided are balanced.
The results shows that, both of the application only have
one skill the dominance, for memrise, speaking skill is
dominant, while duolingo, writing skill is dominant. Those
shows that, in beginning in each of apps, have already
mention that which skills that will their focused.
Overall, Memrise and Duolingo are not balanced in the proportion of skill. In
memrise apps, speaking skill is dominant with 64%, while in Duolingo apps,
writing skill is dominant with 94%.
In this point duolingo and memrise can be a very helpful to help learning English
because the content is appropriate and it can use supplementary materials
beside the class.