This was a descriptive study which investigated English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers’ and students’ perceptions of retell story as a postreading activity in their teaching and learning at high school. The aims of the study were to find out the teachers’ perceptions about advantages and challenges of retell story and to figure out the students’ perceptions about benefits and difficulties of retell story in post-reading stage. This paper drew on data collected from questionnaire and focus-group interviews conducted with the students in grade 10 and from semi-structured interviews with the EFL high school teachers. These 03 teachers and 109 students were from a public high school at a city in the Mekong Delta. The findings revealed that both EFL high school teachers and students had positive perceptions about retell story activity. They perceived many advantages as well as some certain challenges when using retell story as a postreading activity. Results and discussions for EFL teaching and learning in case applying retell story in post-reading stage were also presented in this study.

Keywords: EFL high school teachers/ students, retell story activity, perceptions, post-reading activity, Mekong Delta.