The relationship between creative writing and critical thinkingamong secondary stage students

Abstract EN

This study has two aims: examining the relationship between secondary students' EFL creative writing and their critical thinking and determining whether secondary students' EFL creative writing skills predict their critical thinking.

The participants were 33 first year secondary school students at El-ShomoutEl-MoshtarakaSecondary School, Benha, Qalioubiya Governorate, Egypt during the first term of the school year 2020/2021.

An EFL creative short story writing skills test and a critical thinking skills test were used for collecting data.

To find out whether or not there was a significant correlation between their EFL creative writing and their critical thinking, Pearson correlation coefficient was used.

The multi-regression analysis model was applied to find out if creative writing skills can predict critical thinking skills.

The multi-regression analysis model was applied to find out if creative writing skills can predict critical thinking skills.

Pearson correlation coefficient between the scores of the study participants in the critical thinking test and their scores in the EFL creative writing test showed the existence of positive significant correlation between the two variables.

It was also found that secondary students' EFL creative writing can be a significant predictor of their critical thinking.