Abstract
These day mobile phones are being resorted to as indispensable pedagogical tools for imparting language skills to the present day students who are termed as ‘Generation Y’, ‘Net Generation’ and above all ‘Digital Natives’. Mobile phones have the potential to be reliable pedagogical tool to teach writing which is the most neglected skills to the intermediate students. The current paper examines the perceptions of two lecturers regarding the use of mobile phones and PowerPoint in teaching descriptive essay writing skills to intermediate students at M.A.O. College, Lahore. The qualitative data for this purpose was collected by means of semi-structured interviews from those two lecturers who taught experimental as well as control groups respectively. The findings of the study indicated that the lecturer of experimental group was very much in favour of mobile phones to be incorporated in the teaching writing class. Even the lecturer of control group favoured the use of new technology as she was not in favour of PowerPoint to be used for teaching writing skills. Moreover, the findings of the study indicated that the mobile phones can very easily, successfully and conveniently be employed as pedagogical tool to impart writing skills as they can motivate the lecturers for teaching as well as the students for learning the writing skills.
Highlights
English is the most widely spread as well as spoken language of the globe (Kitao, 1996) helping individuals and nations to attain their personal and national goals (Schramma & Srinivasan, 2015)
According to Keller (2016) “technology infusions into learning environments have grown exponentially during the past two decades”, it is the need of the hour that the pedagogues must use mobile phones to help learning writing skills so that Pakistani students can have their due share in the global development
Though out of the four language skills, writing is indispensable in learning and teaching process yet it is the most difficult (Dixon & Nessel, 1983) and ignored skills too, especially in Pakistan where a large number of students fail in intermediate exams only due to their poor writing skills as they do not know how to write correct English (Sultana & Zaki, 2015)
Summary
English is the most widely spread as well as spoken language of the globe (Kitao, 1996) helping individuals and nations to attain their personal and national goals (Schramma & Srinivasan, 2015). In this digital or googling age (Lahlafi and Rushton, 2016) when mobile phones can help learn “almost anything” (Prensky, 2005), pedagogues in the public sector colleges in Pakistan are employing the age old conventional methods to impart language skills especially the writing skills. The following research (Cavus & Ibrahim, 2016; Shaista & Ahmad, 2015; Hayati, Jalilifar &Mashhadi, 2013; Power & Shrestha, 2010; Taradi & Taradi, 2016) having addressed various language
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