The advancement of technology has brought several options that instructors can utilize in English instruction including Pear Deck, which is an interactive classroom response system (Mache et al., 2017). This platform possesses several strengths including its accessibility, real-time response system, and session review feature. Despite the strengths, the current version of Pear Deck possesses weaknesses particularly for free users and Microsoft account users since a few useful features are currently unavailable for them. Notwithstanding the flaws, this platform has great potential to improve students’ engagement and achievement in both face-to-face and online English instruction.
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