U-JET: Unila Journal of English Teaching
Vol 12, No 1 (2023): U-JET

Improving students’ ability in mastering simple present tense by using Duolingo App

Suci Handayani (Unknown)
Deddy Supriyadi (Unknown)
Fajar Riyantika (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
15 May 2023

Abstract

The objective of this research is to investigate the significant improvement in students’ ability in mastering simple present tense after being taught by using Duolingo app. This research was quantitative and used a one-group pretest-posttest design as the research design for this study. This research involved the students of VIII 1 class at SMP Negeri 1 Sukadana which consists of 30 students. In collecting the data, the pre-test and post-test were administered. The data were analyzed by using Paired Sample T-Test (SPSS 25.0 for windows) to test the hypothesis in which the significance was determined by α0.05. The result of data computation of the value of 2-tailed significance was 0.000.05 which is lower than 0.05. Based on that result it is indicated that there is a significant improvement in students’ ability in mastering simple present tense after being taught by using Duolingo app.Keywords: simple present tense, duolingo application

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Journal Info

Abbrev

123

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Ujet is a quarterly journal (March, June, September and December) published by the English Language Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Lampung. It addresses a wide range of different fields in English teaching and ...