Abstract
This paper reports on a summary writing activity and an oral presentation about a newspaper profile piece. The results of the questionnaire and students' comments revealed the following: 1) students had not been taught how to make a summary in Japanese, 2) students found the practice of summarizing to be helpful, 3) students found the use of a profile piece for writing a summary and oral presentation to be interesting and 4) students found that Writing a summary to make a presentation about a profile piece was difficult regarding sorting out the information and reconstructing the contents of the text.
