أثر برنامج تعليمي قائم على أنموذج ماير و سالوفي في تحسين مهارات الكتابة الإبداعية لدى طالبات الصف السابع و اتجاهاتهن نحوها

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Kamil Ali Otoum Abstract The current study investigates the effects of an instructional program based on Mayer and Salovey's model on the development of creative writing skills among female students of the 7th grade and their attitudes towards such skills.

The study was conducted on four section from the female students of 7th grade at the Model School/ Yarmouk University.

The study sample was randomly distributed into two groups: The experimental group, which consisted of (30) female students from section (A) of the 7th grade, and the control group, which consisted of (30) female students from section (C) of the 7th grade.

In order to achieve the purpose of the study, a test of creative writing skills has been developed.

The test consisted of (26) questions including four creative writing skills, each of which has a set of evident performance indicators, and a scale of attitudes has been developed, the scale consisted of (20) statements to measure the student's attitude toward creative writing.

Validity and stability of the tools have been confirmed.

After conducting the study and applying the pre-test and post-test, the researchers has collected data and statistically analyzed them.

The result showed that there are statistically significant differences at the statistical value level (α= 0.05) between the two averages of performance of the Seventh grade female students' sample in the post-test of the entire creative writing skills, as well as each creative writing skill included in the study (fluency, flexibility, originality and Elaboration) attributed to the group variable in favor of experimental group individuals who were taught through an educational program based on Mayer and Salovey's model.

Furthermore, the results showed that such an instructional program has strongly affected the attitudes experimental group's female students towards creative writing.

On the basis of these findings, the study concludes with a set of recommendations, which included training and qualifying teachers of the Arabic language about the way to develop creative writing skills among students using Mayer and Salovey's model.