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.
Highlights
BackgroundEnglish language learning has been a demanding need of people in the world
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 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
Summary
BackgroundEnglish language learning has been a demanding need of people in the world. Like all languages, learning of English is full of problems for foreign and second language learners (Reader’s Digest, 1998). It creates difficulties in different areas for the advanced level students and for the language teachers. The study gives much importance to all the innovative steps in teaching methodologies to enhance academic writing skills, and Dogme ELT is one of them, which claims better learning outcomes. This research study has tried to fill the gap in language teaching methodologies and contributed to the existing knowledge on the subject by exploring the effectiveness of Dogme ELT to enhance English language competence in academic writing skills through a Classroom Action Research (CAR)
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