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English language is mostly learnt for academic and professional purposes all over the world, so most of the ELT (English Language Teaching) researchers and language instructors make efforts to share their effective and successful experiences of teaching language skills through ELT innovations. They highlight the merits and demerits of their teaching experiences in different contexts. They apply various teaching approaches and methods for effective learning outputs. They also integrate different teaching methods for better results. The purpose of this classroom action research was to explore the impacts of Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) and Dogme ELT integrated teaching in an academic essay writing class. Data was collected through a pre-test, a post-test and a learners’ feedback questionnaire and was analyzed through mixed methods. The learners’ performance in the pre-test, the post-test and their responses from the feedback questionnaire proved that the integration of these two modern teaching approaches was a very effective and successful teaching experiment to improve learners’ academic essay writing. Therefore, Dogme ELT should also be included in the syllabuses of teacher training programs at different levels.

Keywords: Integration, Dogme ELT, TBLT, Academic Essay Writing.