The Degree of Including the Creative Thinking Skills in Arabic Language Textbook for the First Secondary Grade in Saudi Arabia

Abstract The study aimed to explore the degree of including the creative thinking skills in the Arabic language textbook for the first secondary grade in Saudi Arabia. The sample of the study consisted of all the scholastic Arabic language textbooks for the first and second levels, two parts for the student books and two parts for the workbooks. The researchers used the sentence unit as a measure of the analysis, and they prepared the study tool which consisted of 38 skills distributed on the domains of fluency, originality, flexibility, and expansion. The validity and reliability of the tool were confirmed. The results of the study revealed a number of results. The most important of which was that the total frequencies of the skills recorded 1445 times. However, the frequency and the percentage of each skill varied as follows: the fluency skill scored the first rank with 406 frequencies (28.09%); the skill of expansion got the second rank with 368 frequencies (24.80%); the originality skill obtained the third rank, with 358 frequencies (24.75 %); finally, the skill of flexibility received the fourth and final rank with 313 frequencies (21.66 %). In the light of the results, the study reached a number of relevant recommendations. The most important of which were training Arabic Language teachers on how to focus on the creative thinking skills included in the scholastic Arabic Language textbooks. More attention should also be drawn to the creative thinking skills, including the creative thinking skills in the Arabic language textbooks.