The effect of teaching with the directed imagination strategy on developing the functional expression skills of secondary school students

Abstract

The research aimed to know the effect of teaching by the strategy of directed imagination in developing the functional expression skills of secondary school students in Al-Mahwit Governorate, in the first semester of the academic year (2021AD - 2022AD). With (60) female students from Osama Bin Zaid School for Girls, equally divided into two groups (an experimental taught functional expression skills according to the strategy of directed imagination, and a control group taught functional expression skills in the traditional way), and (46) students from the Unity Educational Complex, equally distributed into two groups (experimental who were taught functional expression skills according to the strategy of directed imagination, and control group who were taught functional expression skills in the traditional way),)They were chosen intentionally, based on the quasi-experimental method; To achieve the goal of the research, the research tools (a list of skills for functional expression, a teacher’s guide according to the strategy of directed imagination, a skills test for functional expression) were prepared and presented to arbitrators specialized in Arabic language curricula and teaching methods to judge their validity. At the significance level (0.05) between the mean scores of the students of the experimental and control groups in the test of developing functional expression skills for the Arabic language subject due to the variable of teaching method, in favor of the experimental group.