The impact of teaching short stories for the Sudanese English foreign language learners' achievement of English Language

الملخص EN

This study aimed to investigating the effect of teaching short stories for Sudanese EFL Learners' Achievement of English Language.

The problem of the study was that, the researcher noticed that the aims of Sudan Practical Integrated National English Series (SPINE ) are not achieved since the students who finish the 6th textbooks of SPINE series can hardly write a paragraph or speak English freely, naturally and fluently, add to that the results of English Language Exams in Sudan Secondary Certificate are characterized by deterioration.

This study adopted a quasi-empirical method.

The sample of the study consisted of (68) male and female eighth basic students in Omdurman locality in the first term of the academic year 2016 / 2017.The population of the study was (204) students.

The subjects of the study were distributed randomly into two groups in each one (34) (17 male and 17 female group as an experimental) and (17 male and 17 female as a control group).

The experimental group was taught via student's text book plus short stories strategy while the control group was taught via student's textbook only.

A pre/post-test was constructed to measure the students' level in Language skills before and after the experiment.

The study used recent statistical package to analyze the data.

The results indicated statistically significant differences in students' achievement in favour of the experimental group.

Based on these results the researcher recommended that curricula designers, educators, and experts should adopt short stories or include at least short stories in syllabuses.

There is an urgent need for training programs for teachers in the field of literature in general and short stories in particular.

Simplified copies of short stories such as A Tale of Two Cities, the Black Tulip, Treasure Island, etc., are very much recommended as formal literary text.