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Abstract
The current study aimed at investigating the effect of a proposed program based on using some critical reading skills on developing first prepstudents’ creative writing skills. A quasi-experimental design study depending on the voluntary basis of choosing the groups of the study was used. The sample consisted of 55 first prepstage students randomly chosen from an(official) experimental language school who were classified into two groups, one served as an experimental group and the other as a control group. The proposed program was implemented on the experimental group while the control group did not receive this kind of creative writing teaching.The researcher developed and used some instruments which included a checklist of the creative writing skills needed for first prepstudents in the current study’s chosen genres; namely short story and essay, a pre- post creative writing test and its scoring and a critical reading skills checklist mostly used for the first prepstudents. A creative writing pre-post test was administered to evaluate the effect of the creative writing program on the first prepstudents. The researcher developed and used a questionnaire to evaluate the students’ and teachers’ views on the program. The experiment lasted for one academic semester, two sessions a week. Paired t-test statistics was used to measure the difference between the mean scores of the control and experimental group. Results revealed a positive effect of the proposed program in developing the first prepstudents’ creative writing skills. It was recommended that using the critical reading skills may be integrated in the program of developing creative writing skills of prep stage.
Key words: Creative Writing skills, Critical Reading skills, 1st prep students.