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This document outlines an essay comparing the Audio-lingual Method and Task-based Method for teaching language. The introduction will provide background on both methods and state the purpose is to compare them, arguing that adopting features of both could make them more useful for Chinese English classes. The body will have three sections: Section 1 discusses the Audio-lingual Method, Section 2 the Task-based Method, and Section 3 how combining advantages of both could benefit Chinese classes. Each section will be about 500 words with two paragraphs addressing sub-topics. The conclusion will summarize key points.

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Essay Outline

This document outlines an essay comparing the Audio-lingual Method and Task-based Method for teaching language. The introduction will provide background on both methods and state the purpose is to compare them, arguing that adopting features of both could make them more useful for Chinese English classes. The body will have three sections: Section 1 discusses the Audio-lingual Method, Section 2 the Task-based Method, and Section 3 how combining advantages of both could benefit Chinese classes. Each section will be about 500 words with two paragraphs addressing sub-topics. The conclusion will summarize key points.

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Essay Outline

Provisional Essay Title: _A Comparison between the Audio-lingual Method and the
Task-based Method ___________________________________________________

I. Introduction (500 words in total later)

Bullet points are sufficient. You don’t need to write full sentences.

 Orientation: background information that you would like to mention to the reader to
establish the context, key idea, topic, mention relevant findings/studies
General relevance of Teachinf Method
Origin and history of Audio-Lingual Method
Origin and history of Task-based Method

 Purpose Statement (i.e. what is the aim of the paper? What will the paper do/show?)
To compare both teaching methods
To suggest how the Audio-lingual method could be optimised

 Your Thesis Statement/Claim/Argument (i.e. what is your argument/claim?)


To argue that by adopting some features of Task-based Method and Audio-lingual Method
, how it could be useful in the current Chinese English classes.

II. The Body


Your body should have three sections; each section should have approx. 500 words.1 500
words are – more or less – two paragraphs 2. Please name the topic of each section and add
bullet points about the content that you would like to present in each section. You can, if

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It is also possible to have two sections, but then each section would have approx. 750 words.
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A section consists of multiple paragraphs and addresses a larger theme/unit within a paper; a paragraph is a
smaller unit of usually 150 to 300 words. A paragraph presents and discusses one idea.
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you already have an idea, also state what each of the two paragraphs of each section will
contain. In the sections, you try to break down your topic into smaller ideas.

Topic of Section 1:

____Audio-lingual Method

Briefly mention advantages

More detailed of weakness

Topic of Section 2

Task-based Method

 Topic/Key Idea of Paragraph 2:

Briefly mention weakness

More details of strengths

Section 3

By adopting the advantages of both methods, how could it be more useful used in the
Chinese classes.

Conclusion

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