| Summary: | The study presents the result of two classes learning spanish vocabulary, namely grade eight andnine. Each class has been split into two big groups: A group of students that learned newvocabulary through the traditional pen-and-paper method and a group that studied the samevocabulary through the mobile app called Duolingo. The purpose of the study is to observe andidentify if there is a difference in how much the students can learn from the different methods.The study surveyed a total of 35 students in two classrooms in a Swedish primary school.The study aimed to identify possible differences in results when students use one learningmethod in place of another; and if a difference in results existed, have said differences presentedand identified.The study has taken student learning motivation into perspective but it is not the central focus ofthe project.The completed study managed to identify differences between the groups. When the factor‘student motivation’ was weighed in, the results showed that the students with low motivationdegrees that learned through traditional studying methods performed better than the otherlow-motivation students but that instead learned through the learning app. The study could notfind a significant difference between the groups of students that had a high degree of motivation.
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