The Preferred Classroom Interaction patterns among Students of the English Language Department and its Relationship to their Analytical Thinking

. The current study aimed to identify (The preferred classroom interaction patterns among students of the English Language Department and its relationship to their analytical thinking), and to achieve the goal of the research, the researcher prepared two tools, The first one of which revealed the preferred classroom interaction patterns for the students of the English Department, and it consisted in its final form of one paragraph (specify the teaching style you prefer during English language lectures) three alternatives including (Teacher, Student Participatory style between the teacher and the student) as each alternative expresses a class interaction pattern, while the second tool was used to measure analytical thinking and was formed in its final form after being presented to the arbitrators and experts from (25) paragraphs including (5) skills (Observation, Comparison - Interview, Classification, Forecasting or Forecasting and guessing, Defining the features and attributes) and the researcher verified the validity of the tool by the apparent and logical validity as well as the psychometric properties of the tool (the power of distinction The stability was extracted by repetition method, and their percentage was (82%) and (80%), respectively, and after applying the two tools to the members of the research sample from the students of the English Language Department, which started on Thursday (19/10/2021 AD) and the distribution ended on Sunday (10/22/2021 AD), collecting data from them and analyzing them statistically by using the t-test for one sample, and the one-way analysis of variance test.The results indicated that:1- The proportions of the students' preferred styles varied and were consecutively upward (the teacher-based style, the student-based style, the participatory style between the student and the teacher), where the students of the English Department preferred the participatory style.2- The gender variable has no difference in the preference for the participatory style over others between males and females.3- Students of the fourth stage of the English Department have a good level of analytical thinking.4- The gender variable has no difference between the level of analytical thinking between males and females.5- There is a direct relationship between learning styles and the level of analytical thinking among students of the fourth stage of the English Language Department.