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mastery in language skills. Hence, teachers can implement meaningful activities that involve students’ motivation as a way to advance their language improvement. Teachers must assume their role and search for the best activities, strategies and materials for their students; hence, it is an unfinished (never ending?) task for them to explore all the possibilities in order to fulfill students’ expectations of learning. According to the text length, Hill (1994:15) points out three other basic criteria of choosing the text: “(1) the needs and abilities of the students; (2) the linguistic and stylistic level of the text; (3) the amount of background information required for a true appreciation of the material.” Therefore, teachers can do a diagnosis of the students’ level of language and likes in terms of reading; it will permit them to select the appropriate material, and the activities are going to be meaningful for students. Furthermore, the implementation of the reading of short stories in the classroom encourages students to identify the plot of the book and also to increase their vocabulary and improve their language learning process because the language becomes something which is needed to better understand the Universidad Santo Tomás, Seccional Tunja
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