The Evolution and Future Direction of Story Continuation Writing Task in China: A Systematic Review

Story continuation writing tasks (CWT) have emerged as a prominent pedagogical and assessment innovation in English as a second and foreign language (ESL/EFL) contexts, particularly in China. Requiring learners to read an incomplete narrative and compose a coherent continuation, CWT integrates reading comprehension with written production, fostering a psycholinguistic process of alignment where learners reuse and adapt lexical, syntactic, and semantic structures from the input text. This distinc