مقروئية كتابي القواعد و مهارات الاتصال للصف الثامن الأساسي في الأردن و مدى تركيز أسئلتهما على مهارات التفكير من خلال تحليل محتواهما

Abstract EN

This study aimed to analyze both the grammar and communication skills textbooks of the basic eighth grade in Jordan to determine their readability and the degree of their focus on thinking skills.

The sample of the study consisted of 660 male and female eighth graders in the governmental schools in Al-Karak district (330 students for each textbook).

The sample of the study also included all questions in the two textbooks under investigation.

To achieve the purpose of the study, the researcher used two tools: a comprehension test to define the readability level of the two textbooks, and a tool that was based on Bloom's classification of cognitive objectives in order to define the degree of focus on thinking skills in the two textbooks.

The results of the comprehension test showed that (54.9%) of the students were within the frustrated reading level, (32.25%) of them were within the teaching reading level, and (12.85%) were within the independent reading level.

The results of the study also showed that the questions of the communication skills textbook mainly focused on the low thinking skills ( knowledge and comprehension (65.6%), and that the questions of thegrammar textbook and the language applications textbook focused on both the low thinking skills (49.9%) and the high thinking skills (50.1%