Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This study investigates how writing short stories can be integrated into the curriculum of teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) to consolidate students’ knowledge of the language and promote their creative writing skills. It aims to understand students’ experiences writing fiction and nonfiction short stories. Data were obtained from students’ short stories written electronically during an English course and their responses to a post-task questionnaire. A mixed-method explanatory sequential research approach was adopted. Qualitative and quantitative data were derived from the themes explored and descriptive statistics of the short stories written by the participants. Qualitative data were obtained from students’ perceptions gauged from their post-task questionnaire responses. The findings indicate that writing short stories effectively reinforced students’ prior English knowledge and encouraged creative and imaginative writing while breaking the monotony of typical classroom procedures.
DOI: 10.32674/00g6qf65
Author: Ahdab Abdalelah Saaty
Institution: University of Jeddah
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4411501964