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This study has explored the effectiveness of a mobile app in the development of students’ English syntactic skill. Participants were sixty-four (64) Grade-XI students of Government Higher Secondary School, Shaidu (district Nowshera, KP, Pakistan) selected through simple random sampling technique. These participants were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. During the training period, experimental group used the mobile app (i.e. Sentence Master) for 40 minutes every day during twenty-four (24) school days via a mobile device to practice targeted sentences, whereas, during these days the control group used the traditional method i.e. paper-based instruction to practice the target sentences. After twenty-four (24) days experimental time, a post-test was administered to both groups. Pre- and post-tests scores were used to assess the participants’ syntactic skill development levels before and after training. The experimental group performed significantly better as compared to control group. Thus, it is recommended that mobile app e.g. Sentence Master in particular and other mobile apps in general may be used to develop learners’ syntactic skill in English.

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