Short-stories lesson sequence: group reading, individual oral summary, then written summary paragraphs

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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 causal), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

A lesson-level instructional pattern in which learners first read a short story together, then produce an oral summary, then a written one. The article's procedure was that "the researcher asked the students to read the short story silently and loudly with their peers in a group", after which students made an individual oral summary in front of the class and wrote three to four paragraphs. It was implemented in the experimental group as the English teaching activity, drawing on stories from Intermediate Stories for Reproduction 1.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• Stories must be selected appropriate to students' level of language proficiency, which the article says lets instructors avoid "frustration reading"

Constraints

• The article's procedure section states the experiment occurred in 12 teaching sessions of 90 minutes, while the abstract states the treatment was given for 14 meetings; the article does not reconcile this discrepancy

Target Learners

• non-English-major first-semester undergraduate EFL students

Learning Goals

• speaking achievement
• writing achievement

Claims

• Short Stories Posttest Mean Difference [+M]
• Short Stories Improve Speaking Writing Within Group [+M]

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Key Sources

• Jaya Nur IMAN. (2017). A QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON USING SHORT STORIES: STATISTICAL AND INFERENTIAL ANALYSES ON THE NON-ENGLISH MAJOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' SPEAKING AND WRITING ACHIEVEMENTS. International Journal of Languages' Education and Teaching, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.18298/ijlet.1719

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id	short-stories-read-oral-written-summary-sequence
title	Short-stories lesson sequence: group reading, individual oral summary, then written summary paragraphs
description	A lesson-level instructional pattern in which learners first read a short story together, then produce an oral summary, then a written one.
status	review
generated	by process:settle-candidates on 2026-11-01
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