At higher education settings, summarization skills are essential to academic success. However, research on summarization appear to have been relatively neglected, and consequently "many more are needed". To this end, 120 EFL students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz,Iran were selected: the three experimental groups were subjected to the task-based language teaching principles in the treatment. two reading comprhension texts ( one as a pre-test, the other a post-test)were assigned to the four groups involved, and they were all required to write up two summary protocols for each text they...