Social-emotional support was the most frequent code in COVID-19-related Duolingo discussion posts, followed by gratitude and pandemic¶
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q2 i? Among coded contributions, "social-emotional support" had the highest frequency (40 occurrences), "gratitude" second (30), and "pandemic" third (28). → Neuschafer 2022
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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
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Frequency counts came from coding the contributions of each discussion post in the netnographic dataset of around 4,000 contributions. The article also reports "gratitude" (30 occurrences) and "pandemic" (28 occurrences) as the next codes.
"The code with the highest number of contributors was "social-emotional support" contributions (40 occurrences). This code includes the sub-codes of "personal sharing" and "encouragement.""
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Related Claims¶
- Duolingo discussion boards provided emotional support — social encouragement and community — beyond the instrumental and informational support previously documented — related
- Duolingo users sought COVID-19 vocabulary in foreign languages and shared their own translations, with 17 users requesting pandemic-related lesson content — related
- Planning was the most frequently coded category (777; 14.8%), with Discourse Continuity (561; 10.7%) reflecting multi-turn reformatting requests — related
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Social-emotional support was the most frequent code in COVID-19-related Duolingo discussion posts, followed by gratitude and pandemic |
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Social-emotional support was the most frequent code in COVID-19-related Duolingo discussion posts, followed by gratitude and pandemic |
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