Abstract:
This research is a case study in Asuom Senior High School in the Kwaebibirem
Municipality, Eastern Region. The objective of this study was to identify the role of
learning prose in the written compositions of first year students in ASEC. It also sought
to see the impact of the literature-based approach in the composition writings of
students. To achieve this, the researcher employed the qualitative design and the
instruments used to collect data were; interviews, lesson observations, pre-test and posttest
after an intervention treatment. Sixty students took part in the study, thirty students
as experiment group and thirty students as control group, together with four teachers of
English language. The findings of the study indicated that majority of teachers used
traditional approaches to teach written composition and students’ performance was low.
The findings also revealed that the literature-based approach was effective in the
teaching of written composition to students. In light of these findings, the researcher
recommends that teachers employ approaches that are learner-centered and processoriented
like the literature-based approach to improve on their students’ writing ski
Description:
A dissertation in the Department of Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Foreign
Languages Education and Communication, submitted to the School of Graduate
Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of the degree of
Master of Education
(Teaching English as a Second Language)
in the university of Education, Winneba
