The Impact of Meta-cognitive and Critical Thinking strategies in Developing Creative Thinking

Abstract

Reading occupies an important position in the Arabic language teaching system. It is a linguistic skill that is the key to other skills, and the main gateway to communication with the written or printed word of the language. In order to pay attention to teaching and developing the reading subject, the researcher examines the metacognitive and critical thinking strategies as two modern teaching methods in developing creative thinking. To verify this, an experimental design is adopted for three groups, including two experimental groups and a control group. The research sample is 90 students. They are randomly and evenly distributed into three groups. Equivalence is achieved between the groups, and behavioral objectives and teaching plans are prepared and presented to a group of experts and specialists in the Arabic linguistics, literature, and teaching methods. The experiment has lasted (6) weeks and the researcher has statistically employed one-way analysis of variance, verbal method, chi-square (Ka2), and Pearson's correlation coefficient. The students of the two experimental groups have outperformed the control group, and the students of the first experimental group has outperformed the students of the second experimental group.