Investigating the Impact of Short Story Use on Students’ Speaking Skill Development: A Case Study of Idriss I High School

Abstract

This study focuses on the use of short stories to enhance Moroccan public high school students’ speaking skills. Its objective is to investigate the impact of utilizing short stories to teach English in fostering learners’ speaking abilities. In order to attain this objective, we conducted an experiment in which we used a pretest-posttest design on 40 high school students who were divided into two groups. The selection of the first group (Group1), composed of 20 students, and the selection of the second group (Group2) composed of 20 students. The first group taught speaking utilizing short stories, whilst the second group taught speaking using the traditional way of their English classes. The study lasted 3 weeks and included two sessions per week from March to April 2023. The results of the study showed that the use of short stories had a very important impact on the enhancement of the student's speaking ability. As a result, the employment of short stories in teaching speaking was praised for helping students develop their communication performance.