Most of these stories are interesting and have good plots because they have been refined by time and many story tellers. Many people express their thoughts by means of stories. Sometimes children invent their own stories on the basis of existing ones they have heard. The story-based EFL program has already proven successfulin many language teaching situations. It is also one of the most favorite ways for teaching languages in the classroom.
Cohesive markers are very important for writing a well-framed story.
And vice versa, stories are the most useful vehicle for teaching cohesive markers. After a few sessions of teaching cohesive markers, students are ready to have several writing sessions for their own stories. Most EFL students are good readers and are fairly good at analyzing and explaining grammatical rules of cohesive markers, but studying cohesive markers may not be interesting for them. Yet, the prospect of writing stories the next class may invoke active and positive responses from the students. They have read many stories but many of them have never written a story by themselves.