JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES

The impact of the S.N.I.P.S strategy on the achievement of fifth grade literary students in literature and texts and the development of their inferential thinking

Ahmed Fares Ahmed Ali Al-Azzawi

The Ministry of Education, Saladin Education, Ballad Education Department

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/lang.7.2.1

Keywords: S.N.I.P.S strategy, achievement, deductive thinking

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the impact of the S.N.I.P.S strategy on the achievement of fifth grade literary students in Literature and Texts and the development of their deductive thinking. In order to achieve the two goals of the research, the researcher relied on the experimental method in explaining the impact of the strategy. For this reason, the researcher formulated the appropriate hypotheses for his research. The current research was limited to students of the fifth literary grade in secondary schools for boys affiliated to the General Directorate of Education in Salah al-Din for the academic year 2022-2023. The researcher relied on the experimental design, and the research sample consisted of (63) students from the fifth literary grade. In Al-Bahili Secondary School, there were (32) students in the experimental group and (31) students in the control group, and parity was conducted between the two research groups. The researcher prepared an achievement test consisting of (35) items, which he applied at the end of the experiment. The researcher prepared a deductive thinking test consisting of (60) items. It was applied before the beginning and at the end of the experiment, and the validity, stability, and psychometric properties of the two tests were verified. The results showed: The students of the experimental group who studied according to the S.N.I.P.S strategy outperformed the students of the control group who studied according to the usual method in the achievement test and deductive thinking.