Document Type : Original Article
Author
shiraz university
Abstract
The conversation curriculum is considered an appropriate climate for the growth of critical thinking because it relies on dialogue, communication, discussion, and criticism of developments in daily life. It is necessary to enrich the conversation curriculum with the skill of critical thinking due to the positive characteristics it entails. Since educational books are considered an essential pillar of the academic curriculum, this article aimed to evaluate the training and activities of the "Arabic in Your Hands" according to their inclusion of critical thinking skills based on the statistical approach based on the content analysis method. The population consisted of all the activities and training of the Arabic in your hands; and the study sample was limited to the training and activities of 16 study units, which amounted to 796 training and activities selected randomly. What this study found is that critical thinking skills were present in 287 training and activities at a percentage of (36.05%), which indicates an unacceptable level of presence of thinking skills in the group. Distribution of critical thinking skills across the five areas. The interpretation skill achieved the highest level of presence, followed by the skills of deduction and knowledge of assumptions, and the skills of analysis and evaluation came in last place. With regard to the interpretation skill coming in first place, this may be due to the remarkable role that this skill plays in providing the learner with the interpretive ability to express what he experiences in his daily life. What we can fault the authors for is not taking into account the distribution of some skills according to the learner’s mental and scholastic development, as well as the unequal distribution of some main and subsidiary skills in the analysis units, which negatively affects the acquisition of critical thinking skills.
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