Impact of Short Story Reading on Enhancing EFL Students’ Writing Skills.

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the impact of short story reading on enhancing EFL students’ writing skills. A case study of second year secondary school students in the Sudan; Khartoum state.In recent years, it has been noticed that secondary school students’ writing performance is declining. Evidence for this poor writing for the second class students at secondary schools who exhibit inabilities to produce short sentences, paragraphs, and even to perform well in their writing assignments. The study uses a descriptive analytic method design. The researcher uses pre and post/tests for second year secondary school students and the questionnaire for English language teachers as tools of data collection. SPSS program is used to analyze the data collected to arrive to the expected results. The findings indicate that teaching short story reading enhances the students’ writing skills. The findings also reveal that exposing students to short stories reading can be considered essential and useful method to develop writing skills at secondary school level. The study recommends that training programs should be offered to train teachers on using short stories techniques and strategies in EFL classes.