Many language-learning apps do not feature multiple languages on the same app and are not accessible simultaneously. The recent health and security challenges all over the world have established the need for self-directional language-learning apps. This is not targeted at replacing language teachers, but at complimenting the efforts of the teachers, as its use will eliminate anxiety, timidity, and intimidation which often kill the morale of language learners. This study seeks to examine the perceptions of language learners on the use of LearnLingua, a Self-Directional Multilingual App, to enhance proficiency in multiple languages with an interface between the French and English languages and the mother tongue of respondents. The study adopts the use of focus groups and intervention to collect data from a sample size of 120 university undergraduate language learners comprising native speakers of Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba, drawn from Nigerian university French Language students in 300 level. The study adopts simple percentage and inferential statistics for data analysis. The study's findings substantiate the focus of the study, which is to examine the perceptions of language learners on using the LearnLingua, Self-Directional Multilingual App for language proficiency. Results reveal that LearnLingua SDMA is an effective tool for multiple language proficiency. The study concludes that LearnLingua will motivate language learners to overcome anxiety, timidity, and humiliation and it will promote access to new languages through the mother tongues and/or the national languages as the case may be with ease.

Authors:
Olukemi Adetuyi-Olu-Francis, University of Lagos, Nigeria

About the Presenter(s)
Specialist in ICT-Enhanced Teaching of French as a Foreign Language, Department of Arts Education, University of Lagos. Coordinator of Diploma in French Proficiency. Deputy Coordinator of Career Development Services Unit of the University of Lagos.

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