A learner’s language proficiency might be a factor that influences the use of words
and sentence structures in writing. In this study, the participants in the different
groups chose the texts with different difficulty levels; therefore, it was difficult to
compare the use of sentence structures in their creative writing. However, the reading
texts they chose indicate different difficult levels with different vocabulary sizes. In
this case, we might claim that reading served not only as a stimulus for expansion of
ideas but also as a linguistic model for the use of words and sentence structures. This
finding lends support to Eckhoff’s (1984) which indicated learners who read stories
with more complex patterns use more complex structures in their writing