The Role of Teaching Short Stories to Develop Narrative Writing Skill

Abstract

This study aims at investigating "The Role of Teaching Short Stories to develop Narrative Writing Skill" .The population of the study is"60" students from Karrari Locality. The researcher usesthe descriptive analytical method for data collection, through the pre-& post- tests whichare completed by students and data is analyzed by using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). The findings revealed that, the role of teaching short stories to develop narrative writingskill.Narrative writing skill creates difficulties for secondary schools. Also, Secondary school students face difficulties in using "past- tense" for sequence events. Moreover, they lack the basic techniques in writing skill in general such as (punctuation marks, spelling, neat and the structure of words) .So the study recommends that short stories should be taught and tested to improve narrative writing skill at secondary schools.