Impact of Teaching Short Stories on Sudanese EFL Learners’ Vocabulary learning

Abstract

The current study aimed to explore the relationship between teaching short stories and the improvement of the learners' vocabulary in the Sudanese EFL context. The study used a descriptive and analytical research design. It used a pre-test and post-test for 20 students from Khartoum University and was divided into two groups-  an experimental group and a control group, with 10 participants in each group. Using statistical analysis, the findings showed that the participants who were taught using short stories improved their vocabulary in terms of increasing their word count and usage that the participants in the control group.  That is to say,  using short stories motivates the learners to learn new words and enables them to use such vocabulary in sentences. Reading a short story can improve students' vocabulary. With this significant result, it can be said that short stories develop learners' vocabulary and this helps EFL learners, like many other similar contexts, to develop their vocabulary through the teaching of short stories.

Keywords: ELT, EFL learners, Short stories, Sudanese Context, Vocabulary