Exploiting time fillers activities for enhancing students critical thinking skills and vocabulary learning

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The current study aims at finding out the impact of exploiting time filler activities which are things that teacher does when he / she has run out of other material on enhancing or developing secondary students critical thinking skills.

It also aims at investigating the effect of implementing time filler activities on improving students vocabulary learning.

To achieve these aims, the researcher has used an experimental design in which twenty students from Al-Fawz secondary school in Baghdad Governorate are taught the English textbook with a great emphasis on exploiting time fillers by using activities as crossword puzzles and charades.

The researcher has adopted a critical thinking checklist and has constructed written vocabulary test along with the daily observation formula for the two independent samples for applying the data analysis techniques as t-test.

The results of the study are really promising as they indicate that there is a very positive impact of using time filler activities as crossword puzzles and charades on improving students skills of critical thinking and vocabulary learning.