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AUFKLARUNG: Jurnal Kajian Bahasa, Sastra

Indonesia, dan Pembelajarannya
E-ISSN: 2808-7100 Volume 1, No 2, Tahun 2022

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING CAKE APPLICATION IN

IMPROVING STUDENTS SPEAKING SKILLS

Ayu Octavianita1*, Nur Rizka Fitri1, Rafinazly1, Muhammad Taufik Ihsan1

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State Islamic University of Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau, Indonesia
Korespondensi: *11910420406@sudents.uin-suska.ac.id

Info Artikel Abstract

Living on the era of globalization is inseparable to the advancement of
Diterima 09 Januari technology. Technology has a huge impact on our daily life. It has, in fact,
2022 changed the way we live. There is no denying that technology plays a
significant role in all aspects of life. All of our daily challenging duties can
Disetujui 30 Januari
2022 now be quickly and efficiently automated thanks to technology. Living has
changed, and for the better, as a result of the application of technology.
Dipublikasikan 31 Learning and information exchange have become more interactive as a
Januari 2022 result of the introduction of technology in the educational area. The most
significant impact of technology on education is the shift in our worldview.
Keywords:
Technology is responsible for the tremendous shift in thinking from local to
Technology; Cake
application; global. Since the advent of technology, the field of education (teaching and
Speaking skills learning) has transformed. Schools have recognized the value of
technology and have begun to incorporate it into the classroom. It has
© 2022 been easier for teachers to convey knowledge and for pupils to learn it with
Education and the introduction of computers in classrooms. The introduction of
Talent technology has improved the efficiency of teaching and learning. Cake
Development
application is one of the form of technology that is used in the education
Center of Indonesia
(ETDC Indonesia) sector, Cake is a smartphone application that can help you learn to speak
Under the license English. That application is simple to use and completely free. The goal of
CC BY-SA 4.0 this research is to use a cake application to learn how to speak English in
a classroom setting. As a research method, the researchers were obtained
from literature of study review and fom other document analysis. The
research question is: how is the Cake application for speaking English in
online learning implemented? The study's findings show that students are
interested in using the Cake application because it is simple to use and
has numerous features that aid in improving speaking skills.

1. Introduction
The advancement of technology has an impact on every area in the world.
Education is one of the most important areas that has been impacted by
technological advancements. Learning activity is totally implemented in online
learning in the Covid19 age, as we can see. Teachers notice a decline in student
knowledge as a result of using online learning. Students will require an additional

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learning method to correct the problem. In EFL context, there are four
competences students need to acquire, i.e. speaking, reading, listening, writing.
There have been several studies conducted before on the use of mobile
applications in language teaching and learning processes, such as the impact of
mobile applications on students' speaking skills and critical thinking in English
language learning (Kusmaryani, Musthafa & Purnawarman, 2019). This study
found that mobile assisted learning, particularly in language acquisition, has both
advantages and disadvantages in terms of maximizing students' outputs toward
learning goals. They looked into the impact of mobile apps as learning aids,
specifically how they might help students enhance their speaking skills and critical
thinking in English language acquisition. Online dictionaries, language translators,
speaking English, English grammar, speech to text, critical thinking, WhatsApp,
Google Chrome, YouTube, Weebly, and Gmail were among the mobile
applications utilized. Technology, in the form of mobile learning applications, allows
both teachers and students to improve the quality of their teaching and learning.
Speaking is one of the important abilities that students should develop.
Speaking, according to Brown (2001), is an interactive process of building meaning
that comprises the production, reception, and processing of speech using sounds
as the primary instrument. Cameron (2005) also claims that speaking is meant to
express meanings so that others can understand them. To put it another way,
speech is a crucial ability for communicating with others. It is difficult for a teacher
to teach speaking in the classroom due to the importance of speaking. In truth, the
majority of kids are hesitant to speak up in class and lack drive. The difficulty
results basically from the character and inadequate frequency of speaking
opportunities in the classroom in comparison to the abundance of natural varieties
and genres of oral communication. In fact, selecting the most appropriate types of
spoken discourse for classroom practice in a particular language course is a very
hard decision which, unfortunately, hardly ever reflects the natural occurrence and
distribution of communicative situations.
In order to fix the decline in student knowledge as a result of using online
learning. teacher use the bunch of application as an additional course for catching
up the desired outcome. The Cake application is a tool for learning English. It's a
program that provides students how to talk more effectively. It offers people the
confidence and abilities they need to communicate in public or in everyday
situations. Cake application, according to Sinha (2019), It has a recording option
that users can listen to, which is a lot of fun. This application may also be used to
engage students. We can discover new vocabulary while speaking. It's the case.
The finest app for learning to speak English. There are videos that show us how to
do some of these things. Useful English words, idioms, and new terminology for
everyday conversation.
2. Methodology
The data and information for this article were acquired from a book, online
posts, a journal, and other sources. According to Arikunto (2006), literature studies
in research are a method of acquiring data by looking for information in books,
newspapers, journals, and other kinds of literature to give a theoretical framework.
A literature study is a data collecting strategy that comprises doing study studies of
books, literature, records, and reports that have to do with issues solved, according

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to Nazir (1988). There are some points that will be discussed in this article. The
first one is about bout Cake Application's definition. All about the definition of Cake
Application will be analyzed through journal articles that can be accessed online.
Furthermore, the second issue that carried out was the features of Cake
Application. All relevant articles are used to analyze this issue. Moreover,
effectiveness using Cake Application to improving speaking skills is discussed in
this article. In order to get a clearer explanation related to these topics, the
researcher also analyzes some related documents that can be used to explain
these issues.
3. Result and Discussion
3.1 Defenition of Cake Application
According to Fitria, Dwimauliyanti, and Sapitri (2021, p.120), Playlist
Corporation built the "Cake English learning Application." It was updated with
version 2.4.1 on December 17, 2019. In this app, students may learn English using
videos, brief English dialogues, and discussions that are updated daily, allowing
them to learn quickly and continually.
"The Cake application," according to Yanthi (2021), "is the newest, most
popular Android mobile application made by South Korea." It's a program that
teaches people how to talk more effectively. It offers them the confidence and
abilities to talk effectively in front of an audience on stage."
Furthermore, This app may be downloaded for free from the Google Play
Store, and we could also use it for free. Cake is one of the most recent mobile
apps for English learning in 2018. This application can help you enhance your
English speaking skills. Learners can speak English fluently and even confidently
in public. Learners study English using the Cake program by watching YouTube
videos and subscribing to the channels they prefer. Another advantage of using
this app for learning English is that it contains numerous English expressions,
words, and idioms that are highly helpful and must be learned by English learners
in the form of short video scripts or audio. This program is useful and simple not
just for learning to speak English, but also for listening, grammar, and vocabulary.
"Cake Application," according to Lestari (2021), is one of the English
language learning programs that focuses on speaking ability. "Cake" provides the
learner with a variety of activities to aid in his learning process, including
pronunciation, sentence construction, repeating after videos, and a variety of other
activities that can be used in the pre-speaking, while speaking, and after speaking
stages of a primary English-speaking class. It also allows the learner to set study
objectives to track his progress. "Cake" resembles a little English classroom.
3.2 Features and Procedure of Cake Application
This application may be downloaded from the Google Playstore based on the
previous explanation. To use this app, you must first sign up. You can sign in using
your Facebook or Google account; alternatively, you can utilize guest mode, which
does not need you to sign in but only allows you to access free episodes (material
for speaking practice).
To begin the speaking course in this app, tap the microphone icon at the
bottom and select the level you want to study. Next, select the episode or topic you
want to learn, each of which costs 10 coins. When you sign up, you will receive 30

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coins that you can use to unlock the episodes of the speaking course. Here are
some things to keep in mind:
1. In speaking, coins are utilized to purchase particular episodes.
2. Coins are not available for purchase. When you utilize talk while logged in,
you will receive them.
3. The quantity of coins you receive is determined on the number of coins you
spend; the more coins you spend, the more coins you receive.
4. You can store up to 50 coins, but you won't be able to get any more.
So in the speaking course, you must first listen to the dialogue before being
invited to speak in response to what you have heard. This app will automatically
correct your pronunciation; if you mispronounce a word, it will appear striped and
red. You may go through the dialogue again and again until you get it correct.
3.3 Effectiveness using Cake Application to Improving Speaking Skills
After we found the journal about implementation cake application, There are
numerous researches on the issues of technology use in language teaching
and learning such as, the first, Winda Yanthi (2020) found at SMA PGRI 3
BOGOR that Cake Application can be creating fun learning, improving
students’ motivation and their speaking skill, also affects students’ confidence.
The second Anisa Fitria, Asri Dwi Maulidiyanti, and Salwa Nur Muhammad
Sapitri (2021) found indicate that the students are comfortable and interested
to learn speaking using cake application. The third, Endang Darsih, Marwito
Wihadi, and Agie Hanggara (2020) found Using ELSA App in Speaking Classes:
Students Voices is revealed that the majority of the students agreed that
ELSA Speak App is a useful tool to improve their speaking ability particularly
pronunciation aspect.
All students like English, but there are some students who have problem in
pronunciation. They all have ever used other applications for learning English.
Some of them have ever used the cake application. They like Cake application
,because it's easy, and interesting to be used. Cake application can be a media
in learning English, especially speaking English ,and thisfeature has AI
Speech recognition torecognize our pronunciation word by word. Cake
application also motivates the learner to confident in speaking English. It
helps students to pronounce well, it is looked at the videos or photos in speak
feature, their grades were good.
The cake application has been around for a long time and is in high demand
among students, presents in the form of small pieces or movies including brief
conversations or film or animation material when we use it. Where the video is also
presented in an interactive way, such as with clear subtitles and elements of
complex word repetition. As a result, students can grasp brief dialogues rather than
extensive dialogues, which boring and confuse students due to the large number of
words. Because we know that in order to implement these speaking skills, we need
to know effective ways to make it easier for students to learn to speak English, this
application is very unique because of the short video presentation, which ensures
that students are not confused between word for word in the dialogue. It is shown
that students were enthusiastic during learning process and students told their

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stories about memorable experience expressively and confidently in their learning

activity.
Furthermore, there are several advantages to learning speaking through the
cake application; this app is appropriate for improving speaking skills because its
main feature is a speaking course; additionally, this app provides you with some
videos from various channels that you can watch and practice speaking with its
keyword. You may use this app to teach speaking skills since it allows you to
assess your students' pronunciation, allowing you to determine whether or not they
have good pronunciation. You can also use this app to select a student's level and
match it to your students' level; the levels range from basic to advanced.
In addition, students were interested by the usage of Cake App media in
presentation, practice, and production activities. In the teaching and learning
process, they always paid a lot of attention to the Cake App. The students received
enough inputs such as vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation by using the Cake
App as a digital media to inspire their thoughts to talk. In general, they made a
greater contribution to each learning activity. This appears to back with Briggs'
(1970) assertion that media are physical tools used to communicate with students
and motivate them to study.
Moreover, by providing a positive atmosphere and rewarding students for
their engagement and accomplishments during the teaching and learning process,
they competed with one another to demonstrate their best performance in speaking
activities. They also took an active role in the teaching and learning process
utilizing Cake App since they did not feel intimidated. This research supports a
previous study finding by Harmer (2014), who stated that teenagers are appealing
if they are engaged, have a lot of creative potential, and a strong commitment.
4. Conclusion
In general, speaking is an important aspect of the English unit since it allows
students to express and present their finest thoughts and perspectives. Students
with excellent speaking skills can discover themselves during the teaching-learning
process. As a result, in order to support and assist students, the instructor must
devise an effective technique to stimulate students' interest and increase their
capacity to study English. The Cake application is a learning tool for English. It is a
program that teaches students how to communicate more effectively. It provides
people with the confidence and skills they need to speak in public and in every
situation. It encourages students to participate actively and joyfully in class. They
can concentrate more on learning to talk with the Cake app, and they won't have to
worry about making a mistake while practice speaking because the app provides
immediate feedback in any setting.
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