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The study aimed at identifying the relationship between emotional intelligence and the level of literary appreciation skills among Arabic language teachers for the secondary stage in Najran region. To achieve this aim, the researchers used the analytical method. the researchers used two questionnaires; the first one is to measure the level of emotional intelligence, which consists of (38) items, and the second one is to measure the level of literary appreciation scale, which consists of (20) items, the research sample consisted of (105) teachers chosen by randomly, sample, (28) males and (77) females, the results of the study indicated that. The level of emotional intelligence and the level of literary appreciation skills for the teachers was large degree. And there are no significant statistical differences (α = 0.05) at the level of emotional intelligence referred to the variables (gender, qualification, and experience), And there are no significant statistical differences (α = 0.05) at the level of literary appreciation skills referred to the variables (gender, qualification, and experience), In addition, the results indicated that there is a significant correlation between the level of emotional intelligence and the level of literary appreciation skills. There was a statistically significant effect of emotional intelligence and its dimensions on the level of literary appreciation skills among Arabic language teachers. Emotional intelligence was able to explain (503) variances at the level of literary appreciation skills among teachers of Arabic language. (Published abstract)