UNIVERSITY OF SAINT ANTHONY

(Dr. Santiago G. Ortega Memorial)

City of Iriga

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

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(Dr. Santiago G. Ortega Memorial)

City of Iriga
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FORE WORD
BACKGROUN
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HOW TO USE
APPLICATIO
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FEATURES
REFERENCES
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(Dr. Santiago G. Ortega Memorial)

City of Iriga

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

FORE
WORD
21st century is the century of mobile apps, new trends, technologies, &
digitization that will make a drastic change in education sector. The widespread access
to the internet has started a new era of digitization in every field. The fast and easy
accessibility of the internet has made it possible to reach out from the most developed
region to the remotest regions in the world with the same information.

Due to this, it’s now easy to access social sites or entertainment sites or news
sites. There is a unified platform for every field which can be accessed by anyone in the
world.

Education has also seen a lot of changes in the past few decades with the start
of digitization. Education apps have been developed to encourage students of all ages
to learn and explore more in the field and generate more interest to make learning fun.

The eLearning industry has grown exponentially in the last two decades and it
continues to grow with better accessibility and improved education apps that cater to the
requirements of students of all age groups. While many of these educational mobile
apps provide paid services others are free and thrive mostly on the ads that are disp
layed there.
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(Dr. Santiago G. Ortega Memorial)

City of Iriga

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

BACKGROU
ND OF THE
Memrise was founded by Ed APPLICATI
Cooke, a Grand Master of Memory, and Greg
ONin the science of memory and forgetting.
Detre, a Princeton neuroscientist specializing
The website launched in private beta after winning the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club
2009 TigerLaunch competition.

On 1 October 2012, 100 users were allowed to sign up to test a non-beta version
of the website called Memrise 1.0. As of May 2013, a Memrise app has been available
for download on both the App Store (iOS) and Google Play.

As of January 2020, the app received $21.8 million of investments in a total of 7

seed rounds. Memrise is funded by 12 investors: Korelya Capital, Balderton
Capital, Avalon Ventures, Octopus Ventures, Future Fifty, and others.

Starting in late February 2019, Memrise has been the subject of much recent
criticism due to an announcement that user-created content will be moving to a different
web-based platform. It was announced that this new website would not have an app
and that users would be unable to access their material offline. In response, the
Memrise forums were bombarded with posts criticizing this as a slap in the face to
Memrise's users and content-creators. 

In late September 2012, the leaderboard on the website was temporarily

suspended due to "extensive cheating". Specific users had been using bots and non-
intensive mechanisms, such as celebrity photo memory courses, to achieve atypical
scores that were not reflective of actual learning. In response, the administrators
established a new leaderboard after revising the scoring loopholes.
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HOW TO
USE

1. Create an account. Go to memrise.com and

choose a username or sign in with Facebook.

2. Choose a course. In the language section of the site alone there are courses in over 200
languages available, including invented
languages like Elvish and Klingon. The course
screen should roughly indicate how many
hours it will take to complete. A course may be
divided into levels so it is easier to manage. To
choose a course, click to the 'Browse' button at
the top of the site. You can then sort through
courses by language or popularity or search
for keywords. Once you've found a great
course (or three), click on 'Start Learning'!

3. 'Grow' your vocabulary. Memrise uses a garden as a

metaphor for memory. When you start learning a
course, the vocabulary items will be planted as 'seeds'.
As you are tested on them through typing and multiple
choice tests, they be transferred from your 'greenhouse'
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(short term memory) into your 'garden'

(long term memory).

4. 'Water' your
vocabulary. Once an item of
vocabulary is in your long term
memory, it will need to be
watered (tested on)
periodically. If you get the
answer right in the test, you
won't need to water it again very soon, and vice versa. Growing and watering
items and creating mems will give you a certain number of points each time.

5. Use and create 'mems'. 

According to Memrise, "A
mem is anything that helps
you create a connection
between a word and its
meaning. Often colloquially
called “educational memes”,
a mem could really be a
photo, GIF, mnemonic, video, cartoon, example sentence, etymology or even a
witty remark. The only end goal of a
mem is to enrich your learning by
helping you commit something to long
term memory in an enjoyable, vivid
way." Look at mems other people
have made to help you remember
something; rate mems or make your
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own to help other people

remember things too!
6. Create your own courses. If
there isn't one that suits your
needs, or you want to make a
course based on what you
personally find difficult, create
your own! You can make your
course unlisted, so just you
can see it, or public and share it with the world. Just click on the 'Create' button
at the top of the website. Be social. Get to know other users on the forums. Fill
out your profile with a picture and a short bio. Leave comments on the courses
you study with any questions you might have, errors you spotted or simply to say
how much you liked it. Once you've 'followed' another user, you can see their
activity on your Leaderboard. Engage with the community to improve everyone's
learning experience.

FEATURES

Memrise features an immense option for learners. From popular foreign

languages like French and Arabic to rarely taught tongues like Polish and Mongolian to
some challenging languages, such as Cantonese and Persian, you have all the choices
at your fingertips. You can also learn Spanish dialects, for example, Mexican or the one
from Spain, or learn Russian Cyrillic or one of the artificial and sign languages. If we
merge official and community-driven courses, it would be more than 200 language
courses in dozens of different tongues.
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(Dr. Santiago G. Ortega Memorial)

City of Iriga

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

Memrise offers lessons on Bahasa, Dutch, English, Korean, Chinese, Thai,

Finnish, Japanese, Turkish, Vietnamese, Nordic languages, among many others.The
list is endless, and many are in development, too. Whatever you need, the chances are
you will find one on Memrise.

Types of activities

When you start a program on Memrise, you get introduced to new words: their
spelling, definition, pronunciation, and/or translation into your native language.

The practice of new vocabulary includes the following types of exercises: match
the word to the correct translation and interpretation or vice versa; spell the words (you
can use the keyboard or a smaller set of letters provided by the app); matching the
terms to the correct pronunciation.

There is an activity for learning new vocabulary and one for revising what you’ve
acquired. Memrise uses spaced repetition for language learning through daily lessons
and quizzes. It means that the app regularly brings words up for revision.

If you keep making mistakes on a word or phrase, it will keep coming up for
revision again and again. But if you make it all correct, you will see it less often. It allows
you to concentrate more on the trickier words. Other activities include speed review,
challenging words, pronunciation practice, listening skills through audio and video, learn
with the locals, voice-enabled speaking practice, grammar.

Apart from the speed review, these are available in the paid version. Not all the
activities are available on all courses. You can choose how many words you want to
learn or revise in one go. It tracks your progress and gathers some learning statistics
(although most are only available in the pro version). You can also set daily goals and
reminders to track your progress.
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(Dr. Santiago G. Ortega Memorial)

City of Iriga

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

REFERENCE
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1.  "Memrise". Crunchbase. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
2. Jump up to:a b Shellenbarger, Sue. "Flashcards Get Smarter So You Can,
Too". WSJ. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
3.  Jump up to:a b "Memrise". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
4.  "Learn Languages, Grammar & Vocabulary with Memrise - Apps on Google
Play". 2018-12-27. Archived from the originalon 2018-12-27. Retrieved 2020-04-
24.
5.  "Memrise raises $15.5M as its AI-based language-learning app passes 35M
users".
6.  "The Entrepreneur: Ed Cooke, Memrise". Startups.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
7.  "Learn Languages with Memrise". App Store. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
8.  "Learn Languages with Memrise - Spanish, French - Apps on Google
Play". play.google.com. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
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(Dr. Santiago G. Ortega Memorial)

City of Iriga

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

Chapter 3
“The Integration of Memrise Application as a Tool in teaching: “An Assessment”
This chapter deals with the analysis, interpretation and implication of the

data gathered in response to the specific questions. To present the data

gathered through questionnaire, observations and interview, the

researchers tabulated the results, analyzes, interprets and relates also in

other studies, literatures and articles.

Table 1

The effectiveness of using Memrise application in language teaching.

INNDICATORS WEIGHTED VERBAL RANKING

MEAN INTERPRETATION
1. Memrise is highly effective as an
instructional resource/as an 3.4 Neutral 5
instructional tool.
2. Memrise is a great application to
enrich students vocabulary in a 4.2 Agree 2
fun learning experience.
3. Memrise is the most acceptable
application for students to possess 4.8 Agree 1
a rich vocabulary in foreign
language especially in English.
4. Smartphones can be utilized in
language learning. It is presumed 3.6 Neutral 4
as the effective way to possess an
extensive vocabulary for the
students.
5. Applying the application, it offers a
different atmosphere in the 3.8 Neutral 3
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learning process. Additional

advantages are quicker to access,
easy to use, and flexible.

Criteria WEIGHTED VERBAL RANKING

MEAN INTERPRETATION

1. Do you consider using the mobile Satisfactory

app in learning a language 4.4 1
important and suitable to use?
2. What can you say about the use of
memrise app as a tool in teaching: a 3.6 Average 3
language learning, grammar,
pronunciation and meaning?
3. Is mobile learning can be used to
overcome the challenges most 3.2 Average 4
developing countries face when it
comes to lack of resources in
schools?
4. What can you say about the use of
mobile application on improving 3 Satisfactory 5
students learning in English
language?
5. What can you say about employing
memrise to the students beyond 3.8 Average 2
school times for them to become
more interested to study inside the
classroom?
Table 2

How effective is the use of Memrise app inside the classroom as a tool in
teaching based on the following criteria: