“…Studies have shown that storytelling, an ancient tradition to impart values and cultures, has been widely utilized to enhance students' language, cognition, and emotion and as part of a curriculum for teaching youth within an education environment (Iroh, 2022;Vinnikova, 2022;Connaughton et al, 2019;Hendrickson, 1992). For instance, researchers have discussed the validity of storytelling in teaching language to young learners (Piórkowska and Malenko, 2017), examined the dissemination and components of story-based teaching materials (Ondeng et al, 2022), and developed narrative text-based materials in a curriculum to stimulate students' interest, motivation, and vitalize teachers' teaching (Ningsih, 2022). However, as a double-edged sword, the richness of story resources challenges teachers' ability to choose and adapt teaching materials.…”