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Abstract
The study aimed at investigating the impact of Story-Mapping on developing preparatory stage EFL students’ short story writing and their motivation towards it. The participants of the study were forty students selected from the third grade preparatory stage students at Al- Azhar Mansoura Experimental Preparatory Institute for girls, Mansoura Governorate. The study adopted the quasi-experimental research design. There were two groups: an experimental group (n=20) and a control one (n=20).The experimental group was taught through the story mapping strategy while the control group was taught through the traditional way of teaching. To collect data, the researcher used four instruments: a short story writing skills test administered as a pre-posttest, a motivation scale towards EFL short story writing, a short story writing skills checklist and a short story EFL writing skills rubric. The results of the study revealed that there were statistical differences between the mean score of the experimental group and that of the control group in short story writing skills and their motivation towards it in favor of the experimental group. The study recommends using the story mapping as a strategy in teaching EFL short story writing skills and developing motivation.