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    Teaching of story writing in mainstream secondary boys school, Lahore
    (UMT, Lahore, 2003) SHAFIQ AHMAD
    Like all other researehes this study also aims at improvement in the teaching learning situation. The focus of this action research is to bring to the light the perspectives of teachers and students about the teaching of story writing at secondary level. A boys' mainstream seeondary sehool of Lahore was seleeted to eolleet data for this study. The design of the study was Aetion Research and Lewin's Model of eight stages was used to organise the study. Data in this study was collected through observations of teaching learning situations in the classroom and semi structured interviews of students and teaehers. The study had three phases; pre-intervention phase, intervention phase and post-intervention phase. Analysis of data eolleeted in the pre intervention phase shows that teachers in the mainstream schools do not use modern techniques to teach story writing. Wrong approach towards the teaching of English (English as a subject rather than a language) is the most important cause of such a situation. Another reason is that the teachers appointed for teaching English are not well trained for this job. It is also revealed that the conservative approach of teaehers makes the story writing boring for the students. On the other hand the students want their teaehers to introduce mare and more activity based teaching. Based on the data eolleeted in the pre-intervention phase an action plan was devised which comprises two phases; an informal workshop and team teaching. Then changes were observed and noted in the post-intervention phase. The data collected in the post-intervention phase shows that use of A.V. aids enhanced the interest of the students in the teaching of story writing. Students liked to write stories about their own experiences. Group and pair work motivated the students to learn the language. Proper lesson planning helped the teachers to go through their lessons smoothly. The use of target language enhanced the interest of the learners