“…Such finding might give the impression that short stories are effective only to improve students' reading comprehension performance and vocabulary enrichment but ineffective to develop other language skills and language components acquisition. Yet, various experimental research has revealed that short stories can be effectively used to improve listening (Tamjid & Hassanzadeh, 2012), speaking (Iman, 2017;Omidi & Zafarghandi, 2016), writing (Bartan, 2017;Pradana, 2015), pronunciation (Laadi et al, 2014), and grammar acquisition (Şentürk & Kahraman, 2017). Many authors (e.g., Collie & Slater, 1991;Mourao, 2009;Murdoch, 2002;Pathan, 2013;Saka, 2014) also claimed short stories to be effective materials and tools to develop the four language skills, help language components acquisition, promote learning motivation and higher-level thinking skills, and inculcate values and morality.…”