Résumé:
The study at hand aims at exploring licence EFL teachers and students’ perceptions towards
the effectiveness of Cake-Learn English for Free application, as a supporting instructional
aid, in enhancing EFL learners’ speaking ability. It accordingly hypothesises that if EFL
teachers and learners use Cake application to learn English speaking, they will perceive it as
an efficient learning tool. To test the given hypothesis, in accordance with the participants’
views, an interview was conducted with a sample of six oral expression teachers at the
department of English at Mohammed Seddik Ben Yahia University, together with a
questionnaire distributed to a sample of 130 EFL licence students at the same department
and university. The analysis of the results gathered allowed for deducing that teachers and
students have positive perceptions on the use and the efficiency of Cake application in
improving the speaking proficiency of EFL learners. The subjects have shown such positive
attitudes because they were convinced in utility of the suggested application in developing
the different speaking sub-skills as well as the practical use of the language. Hence, the
application was highly advocated and recommended for integration in the academic teaching
of English for the purpose of ameliorating the speaking and communicative skills of the
language. Furthermore, the conclusions drawn by this study permit for insisting on
modernizing and updating the teaching of foreign languages via the inclusion of Mobile Assisted Language Learning system and the educational applications available.
