Gamifying Children's Linguistic Intelligence With the Duolingo App

Abstract

This chapter discusses the use of Duolingo App to enhance children's linguistic intelligence. Linguistic intelligence is expertise in applying vocabularies effectively and efficiently. Duolingo is an application based on the Android platform which helps children mastering other languages that they can practice speaking, reading, listening, and writing through a play. Children in early childhood are in the period of ‘playing' spontaneously. They will do activities of playing without any instruction from others. The activity of playing naturally will stimulate the aspects of linguistic and symbolic that this development is closely related to learning to speak by involving the ability to vocalize. The use of this application will implement toward gamification method. Gamification uses game-based mechanics, aesthetics, and game thinking to engage people, motivate action, promote learning, and solve problems. This chapter provides an illustration that gamification can be used specifically in stimulating linguistic intelligence based on a case study in Indonesia.

Gamification in mobile-assisted language learning: a systematic review of Duolingo literature from public release of 2012 to early 2020

“…After 2018, however, the count declined by only one in 2019 (n = 9). Early 2020 already has 3 studies, all of which are based in Indonesia (Ajisoko, 2020;Fadhli, Sukirman, Ulfa, Susanto, & Syam, 2020;Pramesti, 2020).…”

“…It began using English for instruction and started adding other languages relatively recently. As Duolingo adds more languages and the interest in technology-assisted language learning grows, we can expect to see the trend slowly increase internationally, as seen in Indonesia throughout 2020 (Fadhli et al, 2020). Figure 4 also indicates that Duolingo, MALL, and gamification is of increasing global interest.…”

Analysis of development of gifted students in elementary school

“…Delving into the uniqueness of an individual is indeed fun, but if this is an analogy of a teacher figure who must identify the characteristics and abilities of his students well, then it is no longer a simple thing (Fadhli et al, 2019;Nurjan, 2018b). It will illustrate the enormous responsibility in conveying the results got by students as input for the school, students, and their parents (Nurjan, 2018a).…”

Pengaruh Kegiatan Bermain Peran dalam Mengembangkan Kecerdasan Linguistik Anak Usia Dini

“…Selain itu, kegiatan bermain peran memberikan pemahaman dan pembelajaran bermakna bagi anak (Ruiz-Ezquerro, 2021). Kecerdasan linguistik menjadi aspek pening yang perlu dikembangkan pada anak melalui berbagai pendekatan seperti kegiatan bermain peran ataupun menggunakan aplikasi tertentu (Fadhli et al, 2019). Lebih lanjut, hasil penelitian ini juga memberikan perngaruh positif terhadap perkembangan linguistik anak (Hasanudin & Fitrianingsih, 2020).…”