Original title: Reading short stories as a gateway to creative writing: enhancing EFL learners' writing skills through literary input
The article looks at whether reading short stories can help people learning English write better. It reviews earlier research rather than testing a new class of learners. That research links reading literary texts with writing that is more connected, expressive, and developed in structure. The article argues that teachers can use short stories to help learners move from knowing English to expressing their own ideas.
When you learn to cook, reading a recipe can show how ingredients and steps fit together. But knowing the recipe is not the same as making a dish that expresses your own taste. In this paper, short stories are the recipes learners read, and their own writing is the dish they learn to shape more clearly and creatively.
English learners need more than correct grammar: they also need to shape ideas and express them clearly. The article suggests that short stories can give teachers a way to connect reading with creative writing practice.
The article synthesizes earlier research; the abstract does not describe a new classroom experiment or report specific measurements. It does not state which stories, teaching methods, learner groups, or conditions produce the strongest effects, or how large those effects are.
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Reading short stories as a gateway to creative writing: enhancing EFL learners' writing skills through literary input — Nigina Muzaffar qizi Rustamova — Лингвоспектр — doi:10.5281/zenodo.23133506
Abstract licence: CC BY
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