Duolingo discussion boards provided emotional support — social encouragement and community — beyond the instrumental and informational support previously documented¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2022 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The current study found that Duolingo discussion boards can also provide emotional support, extending prior findings about instrumental and informational support. → Neuschafer 2022

Evidence¶

Neuschafer 2022¶

Neuschafer, T. (2022). Understanding Duolingo discussion boards as social-emotional support during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Educators Online. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1393729 doi:10.9743/jeo.2023.20.2.8

q2 · i? · qualitative · r2

This interpretation comes from the netnographic analysis reported in the discussion section, which attributes instrumental and informational support findings to the author's earlier dissertation (Neuschafer, 2021) and positions emotional support as the new finding of the current study.

"However, the current study has shown that Duolingo discussion boards can also provide emotional support, wherein learners obtain social encouragement and a sense of community that may give them a new perspective on learning foreign languages during the COVID-19 pandemic."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Social Supports — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• Social-emotional support was the most frequent code in COVID-19-related Duolingo discussion posts, followed by gratitude and pandemic — related
• Duolingo users sought COVID-19 vocabulary in foreign languages and shared their own translations, with 17 users requesting pandemic-related lesson content — related