معرفة الطلبة المعلمين (تخصص اللغة العربية)‎ لمهارات التفكير الناقد و مدى تطبيقهم لها في تدريس اللغة العربية

الملخص EN

The study aimed to examine to what extent the pre-service Arabic teachers know the critical thinking skills and to what degree they practice it in their teaching.

The participants of the study were (104) male and female students preparing for their diploma from Al-Ain University.

The study aimed to examine to what extent the pre-service Arabic teachers have knowledge in some of the critical thinking skills and the degree of practicing it from their perceptions and if there is a relationship between their knowledge of the critical thinking skills and their practice to these skills.

And do the differences of knowledge and practice of the critical thinking skills differ according to gender, grade point average and type of school.

To achieve the aims of the study the researcher designed a questionnaire that consisted of(30) skills and both reliability and validity were checked.

And to answer the research questions, the researcher used means , standard deviation along with T-tests, Pearson correlation one Way Anova .

The results of the study showed, the knowledge of the pre-service teachers of the critical thinking skills and their practice of them were high, and that there was a strong relationship between their knowledge and practice in teaching Arabic.

The results also showed that there were no significant statistical differences in the estimations of the pre-service teachers in the degree of their knowledge and practice of critical thinking skills due to gender and grade point average .

In light of the results of the study the researcher set some recommendations.one of them was to provide the pre-service teacher's programs at university with critical thinking skills models.