During Research Methods this morning, we began to develop personas for our projects after a lecture from Bruce. We came up with four main motivations for being abroad longer than a couple months: study abroad, traveler, volunteer, and business person. Each of us worked on developing one persona based…
Today I visited Amy’s office to do generative design workshop with her. Since Amy is an…
After a team lunch with Chinese takeout, we got down to the business of synthesizing what we learned from our research workshops so far (with Duolingo, two professors, and five language learners). We began by posting all of their ideas as well as a few of our own on…
On Tuesday, we visited Duolingo office in Pittsburgh with some of our interview questions and…
Thanks to Molly, we had a chance to visit Duolingo office and met Myra, a lead community…
Allison and I attended a Spanish conversation class held at Carnegie Public Library. Unlike other…
To understand how people learn and practice a second language in immersive environment, I interviewed Leah and Stacie and listened to their story. Although their experiences are quite similar, the big difference between two people is that the existence of personal…
Candace Skibba is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Hispanic Studies and the Associate Director of the MA in Applied Second…