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language learning: A commercial language platform for young workers in  \nColombia  \nGustavo García Botero*, Jacqueline García Botero** and Frederik Questier***  \n*Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, **Universidad del Quindío, Armenia, Colombia, ***Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium  \n*[gustavo.garcia.botero @ vub.be](gustavo.garcia.botero @ vub.be |)[ |](gustavo.garcia.botero @ vub.be |) **[jgarciab @ uniquindio.edu.co](jgarciab @ uniquindio.edu.co |)[ |](jgarciab @ uniquindio.edu.co |) ***fquestie @  \n[vub.ac.be](vub.ac.be)  \nAbstract  \nIn June 2015, the Colombian government via the Labor Ministry announced a project for young workers called 40.000 Primeros Empleos. In the framework of this project, the Ministry of Labor signed an alliance with the language platform Duolingo as a strategy to provide participants with English learning opportunities and a free language certificate. With the help of a monitoring and evaluation perspective, this study describes Colombian English language learning policies and their relationship with the labour market. The discussion presented here intends to maximize the outcomes of these kinds of agreements and to provide insights for researchers and national stakeholders willing to carry out similar projects in their countries. Certification is also thoroughly analyzed as a means of estimating the possible impact of this partnership.  \nKeywords: Computer-assisted language learning, Duolingo, foreign language learning policies, labor market, mobile-assisted language learning.  \n1. Introduction  \nThe perspective of economics, globalization and internationalization have brought along the creation of open trading practices that require interactions in different languages for economic achievement. In governmental policies across the world (e.g., The European Union, Japan, China, The Middle East) an economic interest in foreign language education has been added to the ideas of cultural understanding and development of communication skills. Furthermore, current geopolitical issues have pushed governments to extend their language policies to the general population that is lacking in foreign language skills. Wagner (2005) insists that equality-oriented projects should be clear on what they are actually bridging. We see this in projects such as Odysseus, a European project to introduce a second language at the workplace, matching the language needs of migrant workers with the vocational workplace context (GrünhageMonetti, Halewijn & Holland, 2003) . The relationship between foreign language learning and equality of opportunity is already being discussed (e.g., Byram, 2008) .  \nIn this vein, promoters of information and communication technology (ICT) in education consider that ICT will lead to a breakthrough in learning and contribute to social change and economic development (Wagner et al., 2005) . In particular, mobile technologies can allow the development of policies that enable equal access for all. These technologies maximize informal and non-formal learning opportunities, expanding diverse educational settings (West & Vosloo 2015) . Mobile learning projects such as the English in Action project in Bangladesh (2012) and the Samsung SDS Multi-Campus project (2011) are examples of pro-equity mobile learning initiatives. In Latin America,  \n42  \nThe EUROCALL Review, Volume 25, No. 2, September 2017  \nthese kinds of efforts are still in their infancy. In 2012, there were 17 identified mobile learning initiatives resulting from pilot projects driven by non-profit organizations or universities; that same year, Colombia was the only country reporting active government support for mobile learning initiatives through public funding (Lugo & Schurmann, 2012) . Until the publication of this paper, there have not been any more updated reports on mobile learning projects in Latin America. 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