Attitudes towards Vocabulary Enhancement through Short Stories
It is proved by research that students have a positive attitude towards
short stories methodology. Maibaodi (2008) conducted a study on learning
English through short stories on 200 female adult, Persian speaking
university undergraduates and found that they showed positive attitude
towards short stories. Erakaya (2003) is of the view that short stories
enable the learners to use four skills of English language. Lao and
Krashen (2000) conducted a study between two groups. The results of
first group showed their improvement through reading literary texts and
the other group showed results of non-literary texts. Oster (1989) also
affirms the importance of “literature by saying that literature enables
learners to write more creatively” (p. 85). Nasreen (2010) also
conducted a study on higher school level students and found a positive
response of research population towards this strategy. Khatib (2011)
conducted a study at Allameh Tabataba’i University Iran with 24 students
in one group and 21 in other group. This study suggests that short
stories remained effective in improving student’s linguistic skills
regardless of the way used to teach to students. Kirkgoz (2012)
conducted a study on 21 Turkish university students regarding their
responses towards short stories. The results of this study suggested
that short stories contribute so much in the overall understanding of
the students. Strodt-Lopez (1996) used short stories to improve
comprehension skills of the students. Findings signify the importance of
short stories. Pardebe (2012) also used short stories on Indonesian
students to improve their linguistic proficiency and the findings of
this study suggested that utilization of short stories improved
students’ language proficiency .Murdoch (2002) is of the view that short
stories enhance the linguistics and paralinguistic competence of the
students. Ellis and Brewster (1991) are of the view that stories
motivate the students towards learning English as a foreign language.