Development of Story Writing Skills through Communicative Approach at Secondary Level in Pakistan

Abstract

The main aim of this study was to observe the effect of communicative teaching on story writing skills among 9th graders. Relevant literature revealed that story writing skills can be increased through a communicative approach. Quasi-Experimental design, that is, pretest posttest nonequivalent control group design was used. Threats to internal/external validity were undertaken properly. Two groups were selected to collect data to achieve the above-stated aim. The creative compositions related to story writing skills were evaluated in the light of scoring rubrics. The data were analyzed using t-statistics. The communicative approach is recommended for teaching dialogue writing.

Visually supported activity suggestions to develop secondary school students story writing skills

“…Many international studies have shown that it is really difficult to teach the story writing skill and that some extra applications are needed in addition to the curriculum (Ahmad et al, 2020;Alkaaf and Al-Bulushi, 2017;Lane et al, 2010;Wilson, 2019). In this study, it is also found out that the activities and strategies used in the teaching programs and textbooks for the story-writing skill are insufficient; new approaches and activities based on these approaches are needed to improve the story writing skills.…”