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21st Century Learning Skills: The Investigation of Indonesian Students' Perspective on the Use of Duolingo as Language Learning Strategy

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This study investigates how Indonesian students' views towards duolimgo application, whether the Indonesian students use the duolingo application as their language learning strategy or not. This study is aimed at analyzing the students in Indonesia use duolingo regarding e-learning in the 21st century learning. This study relies on interviews with five Indonesian students who have duolingo application. The analysis shows the students in Indonesia use duolingo as their language learning strategy. There are several reasons underlying the students' answer. This analysis is significant for students to realize that language learning strategy is very important and technology will continue to grow. They need to realize that to master target language, they need to choose language learning strategy that's suitable for them.

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      ICETT '19: Proceedings of the 2019 5th International Conference on Education and Training Technologies
      May 2019
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      ISBN:9781450372008
      DOI:10.1145/3337682

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