The effectiveness of the brainstorming strategy in developing critical listening skills in the Arabic language among middle school students

This research aims to: develop critical listening skills among middle school students, through the use of a brainstorming strategy. To achieve the research objective, the researcher performed the following actions:- A theoretical study of what was mentioned in previous research, studies and literature related to the current research topic. - Preparing a theoretical framework that contains two axes:First: Critical listening, its concept, importance, skills, requirements, characteristics of the critical listener, the role of the teacher in developing critical listening, studies and research in critical listening.Second: Brainstorming, its concept, principles, advantages, steps for applying brainstorming.- Preparing a list of critical listening skills that are appropriate for second-grade intermediate students?- Applying the critical listening skills test to the students of the experimental and control groups.- Applying the critical listening skills test to the students of the experimental and control groups afterwards.- Preparing a guide for the teacher to teach the program based on the brainstorming strategy to improve critical listening skills.- Selection of the research sample, which numbered (70) female students, distributed among the two research groups, the experimental group (35) female students, and the control group (35) female students. - Applying brainstorming strategy lessons to the students of the experimental and control groups. - Conducting a statistical treatment of the scores of the two applications, the pre and post applications, to test critical listening skills for the benefit of the experimental group, and the post application, and a number of results were reached, the most important of which are: The effectiveness of the brainstorming strategy in developing critical listening skills in the Arabic language among middle school students. - Finally, the research presented a number of recommendations and suggestions in light of the results that were reached.