Practicing Dogme ELT to Enhance L2 Academic Essay Writing Skills

Muhammad Amjad, Adnan Tahir, Ayyaz Qadeer

Abstract


English language has been a pressing need of people all over the world; so, the experts are making efforts for effective and successful teaching and learning of different language skills through innovations in teaching approaches and methods. As a new teaching approach, Dogme ELT was introduced in 2000, which claimed success and better outcomes in different language teaching areas. Focusing on the claim of this new teaching approach, this study was conducted to explore the effectiveness of Dogme ELT to enhance English language competence in academic writing skills. For this purpose, a Classroom Action Research (CAR) was conducted, and the data was collected through a diagnostic assessment test on the very first day and a final test after Dogme ELT treatment. The collected data was analyzed through qualitative and quantitative methods to record the results of the study. The research participants’ performance in the diagnostics test and in the final test after Dogme ELT treatment shows that this new teaching approach is very effective and successful to enhance English language competence in academic writing skills.

Keywords


Dogme ELT, Classroom Action Research, Academic Writing Skills

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.9n.5p.55

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