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Pakistan has two official languages: Urdu and English. English enjoys the status of the elite class language and the language of the government sector whereas Urdu is the contact language among the whole nation. However, this scenario has always engendered a predicament of medium of instruction. This controversy has passed through different phases with significant shifts towards either Urdu or English in each phase. The whole emphasis of the political parties was on getting either of the two languages approved as “the only official language.” Consequently, both the Urdu and English languages lacked formal language training courses. In 1999, Ms. Zobaida Jalal, as Federal Minister of Education, decided to include English as a second language from grade 1 to be taught as a compulsory subject in all provinces (Jalal, 2004). While widespread, English language teaching lacked innovation and expertise. Traditional teaching practices directly affected student performance. According to Abbas (1998), the pass percentage in English at secondary and college level classes was only 18 to 20 percent. This situation has not improved much in the past one and a half decades The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Gujranwala (a major city in the Punjab Province, Pakistan) released overall results for 2014 in English Compulsory subject as a 28.17 pass percentage for Part-1 Intermediate Exams and 45.30 for Part 2. This poor performance is the result of many factors, among which untrained English language teachers, outdated teaching techniques, stress on rote learning, crowded classrooms, poor planning while designing a …