Students’ Perception on the Use of Duolingo in Learning Vocabulary

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to find out the perception of students who have used Duolingo to learn vocabulary. This research used quantitative descriptive research with survey method by giving 25 questionnaires to the samples, where the samples are 100 students with 30 students of Junior and 30 students of Senior High School in Kendari also 40 students of Halu Oleo University. Three aspects of perception cognitive, affective, and psychomotor from Walgito (2004) was used to arrange the questionnaires and using likert scale of strongly agree, agree, neither agree or disagree, disagree, and strongly disagree as the instrument.. The result showed that the mean score for cognitive in Junior High School was 4,43, Senior High School 4,27, and University 4 and the total mean for cognitive was 4,23 categorized as very high. The mean score for affective aspect in Junior High School was 4,49, Senior High School 4,27, and University 4,06. The total mean for affective was 4,27 also categorized as very high. The psychomotor aspect Junior High School got 4,41, Senior High School 4,28 and 4 for University students and the total mean was 4,23 which categorized as very high. From the result can be said that students have very high perception on the use of Duolingo in learning vocabulary.