Making Full Use of Graded Readers to Facilitate EFL Creative Writing Teaching and Learning

Abstract

Creative writing in EFL classrooms is teachable. Graded readers as ‘pedagogic’ and ‘adapted’ reading materials show much noticeable potential value in creative writing teaching and learning. With controlled language, graded readers match the different levels of language competency of learners. Making full use of graded readers as extensive reading and intensive reading materials is essential to help EFL students enjoy reading, acquire English, and creative writing skills. With carefully designed activities, graded readers can function as a resource for language input and expose learners to comprehensible vocabulary and grammar use. They can also serve as a model for EFL creative writing, arouse learners’ creative language use and genre awareness, and act as a tool to elicit creativity and imagination.