The impact of using short stories on the students’ language skills development in Colegio Boyacá - Duitama (ColBoy)

Abstract

This qualitative research looked for the use of short stories in the EFL classroom. It demonstrated students’ whole vocabulary knowledge and attitudes through applying short stories in the EFL classroom. Indeed, it assessed about the importance of short stories to improve students’ language skills and develop their personal reflection about learning English as a foreign language. Moreover, it demonstrated that teaching short stories for 10th graders in a public school could be useful in the EFL classroom. This research paper was realized during the academic year 2020-2021 in a high school, COLBOY-Duitama, Colombia. This research study was oriented to investigate the effect of reading short stories in tenth graders students’ comprehension processes to enhance their knowledge of vocabulary and attitude through the application of specific skills. Some procedures for data collection were used in order to get information by doing survey, interview, and diagnostic test. As a qualitative research, this paper was resulted on data collection from different research instruments. Finally, this study began from the hypothesis that EFL learners would have positive attitudes from the effect of using short stories to promote learners’ vocabulary items as well.