Teaching of narrative essay in the senior high school_ a case study at Osei Tutu II college Tetrem in Ashanti region

Abstract

This study was designed to find out the approaches of teachers’ teaching of narrative essays to students of Osei Tutu II College at Tetrem, Ashanti Region. Narratives differ from answers because the informant chooses and orders the relevant issues through telling and relates the details into the context. Narratives have the point, the plot and temporal structure. Narrative data provides active data, multivoice data and accessible data to sensitive issues, and topics that are difficult to grasp through questioning. The current study is intended to help enhance Osei Tutu II College students to develop writing narrative essays and promote story telling skills. The study attempts to explore the correlation between teaching short stories and improvement of the students' narrative writing. The objective of this research is to relate teaching short stories and its efficiency in improving Learners' narrative essay writing. six (6) students were used for the interview, and two selected short stories were also used in this study as supporting materials. The research sample was taken from teachers and students who felt to be in a position to use storytelling and technology as a teaching method to teach and write a narrative essay; the sample size was six (6) participants.