Document Type : Reasearch paper
Abstract
The current research aims to build a training program based on Chomsky's theory for student teachers and to verify the effectiveness of the proposed programme in developing linguistic thinking among student teachers in English Department. To achieve the aim of the study, the researchers followed the procedures of the descriptive method and the experimental method with partial control for the experimental and control groups. The researchers prepared the training programme which included educational objectives, training content, appropriate training strategies, accompanying activities, training methods, and evaluation methods. It may consist of (8) training sessions, and the researchers verified its validity by exposing it to a jury members. The research sample consisted of (59) student teachers from English Department/College of Education for Humanities /University of Anbar. They were distributed into experimental group that exposed to the training programme and another control group. The researchers prepared the study instrument (test) to measure linguistic thinking, verifying its validity and reliability, extracted the discriminatory powers and the difficulty level of the paragraphs, and determined a criterion for correcting the test, then it was applied to the two groups at the end of the experiment. The researchers trained the study sample during the experiment, which lasted three months (first semester) for the academic year 2023-2024. The data was collected and analyzed using t-test for two independent samples. The results indicated that there were statistically significant differences between the experimental group and the control group in linguistic thinking test for the favor of the experimental group . There is an effectiveness of the training programme in developing linguistic thinking. In light of the results, the researchers concluded a number of conclusions and recommendations.
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