The Degree of Including the Creative Thinking Skills in ‎Arabic Language Textbook for the First Secondary Grade ‎in Saudi Arabia

Abstract

The study aimed to explore the degree of including the creative thinking skills in the Arabic language textbook for the first secondary grade in Saudi Arabia. The sample of the study consisted of all the scholastic Arabic language textbooks for the first and second levels, two parts of the student books and two parts of the workbooks. The researchers used the sentence as the analysis  unit and prepared the study tool which consisted of (38) skills, distributed on the domains of fluency, originality, flexibility and expansion. The study revealed a number of results, the most important of which was that the total frequencies of the skills recorded (1445) times. However, the percentage of each skill varied. The fluency skill scored the first rank (28.09%); the skill of expansion got the second rank (24.80%); the originality skill obtained the third rank (24.75 %); finally, the skill of flexibility received the fourth and last rank with (21.66 %).