Muhammad Asif2013-10-252013-10-252012https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/815Project Advisor:Zafar IqbalOnline teaching (OT) is an emerging trend in Pakistanwith approximately ten years background. During this brief time period online pedagogy has faced many challenges to establish itself as an equal counterpart of conventional classroom teaching. Whether it has achieved its desired outcomes or not is a debatable issue. This case study has been conducted to examine this very issue of the effectiveness of online teaching by narrowing it down to the subject of Business and Technical English (BTE) at the graduate and postgraduate levels at the one and only major online teaching institution of Pakistani.e., Virtual University. The study explores how effective is the learning of Business and Technical communication Skills in English language that comes from online mode of instruction and to what extent it leads to proficiency in documentation for professional purposes. The study makes use of the Connectivist theory by Siemens (2004) to reach its desired findings. Data were collected from the different campuses of Virtual University of Pakistan, therefore, the sample is diverse belonging to various age groups, areas and languages. Factor analysis was used to estimate the effectiveness of Business and Technical English and for testing hypothesis, Mann Whitney U test was applied to get the required results. The results demonstrate that online teaching of Business and Technical English is considered very useful by the students of the Virtual University of Pakistanfor improving their linguistic and grammatical competence to cope with the needs of the business world and job interviews. However, to improve certain limitations, the research also suggests some recommendations.M.Phil ThesisApplied LinguisticsOnline TeachingThesis