HOW PERSONAL NARRATIVES IMPROVE WRITING SKILLS OF EFL LEARNERS

Аннотация

This study investigates how personal narratives enhance the writing skills of EFL learners by promoting self-expression, coherence, and fluency. Writing personal narratives allows learners to organize their thoughts, develop a unique voice, and improve grammatical accuracy. The study employs a mixed-methods approach, combining pre- and post-writing assessments, classroom observations, surveys, and student reflections to measure the impact of narrative writing. The findings suggest that personal storytelling enhances vocabulary use, syntactic complexity, and overall engagement in writing. Moreover, personal narratives create a student-centered learning environment that reduces writing anxiety and fosters creativity. The study highlights the pedagogical value of integrating personal experiences into EFL writing instruction and recommends using structured narrative tasks to improve learners’ confidence, coherence, and linguistic proficiency.