Cake application and oral fluency

Abstract

Currently, technologies have a great role in people’s lives because it facilitates things. These are used especially for communication, work, traveling, entertainment, study, and others. Educational apps have favored the process of learning in different aspects. Thus, this research is focused on Cake, an English learning app, and its influence on the development of oral fluency. This study was quasi-experimental with the participation of twenty students from the Sixth Semester “B” from the PINE “Pedagogy of National and Foreign Languages Career” at Technical University of Ambato. The researcher applied pre-test and post-test to evaluate oral fluency. These tools were standardized taken from IELTS (International English Language Testing System) for speaking. After taking the pre-test the experimental group had to use Cake app every day for three weeks with a duration of ten minutes per day, especially the part of simulating a dialogue like a conversation with a native speaker and recording complete phrases which permitted them to repeat until get an A the maximum score. Consequent to this, the post-test was taken. This study used the T-student statistical test in order to analyze the collect data. The results show that Cake app enhanced oral fluency of the English language