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ABSTRACT
This study intends to explore the perceptions of teachers working in different post graduate colleges in Pakistan about the integration of mobile phone in their English class rooms. The population for this study comprises of teachers from the federal capital and all four provincial capitals of the country. Moreover, to justify the study population, Multan city was taken additionally from the Punjab province. 100 teachers each from all the cities were randomly selected and a survey was conducted in which an organized questionnaire comprising of 21 questions was distributed to the respondents. The findings of this study show that mobile assisted language learning (MALL) is a new phenomenon and it is approved by Pakistani teachers in their language classrooms. Overall, it has been found that like advanced countries, this technique is not only upholding its place in Pakistan, but its popularity is also rapidly increasing.
Keywords: Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL), Mobile Phone, Integration, Pakistan Classrooms, Perception.
INTRODUCTION
In the early twentieth century many people were unfamiliar with the word 'Technology.' However, new inventions and innovations in different fields of science integrated technology in all sections of human life. Presently one cannot deny the importance of technology in the world. Technology is a broad term which include multiple gadgets, innovative methods, techniques and aspects which help people to ease their lives. Technology covers the area from remote of air conditioners and television to the automatic cars; from UPS, generators, and keyless cars to e-commerce. From engineering to medical science and arts, technology is everywhere. Before we discuss further, let us first look at the meaning of the technology and how it can be explained. Reddy and Zhao (1990), describe that the term technology itself is so vast that it is not easy to explain this term. Lan and Young (1996), are of the view that definitions of the term technology are diversified and are dependent upon the context of the disciplines and the authors using this term. The definition by Sahal (1982), assert technology as 'configuration', observing that the transfer object (the technology) relies on a subjectively determined but specifiable set of processes and products. Sahal (1982), argues that technology can be taken as the configuration which can observed from the way it...