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This study aimed to find out the effectiveness of using differentiated teaching of the English language in developing skills of listening comprehension and creative thinking among students of the secondary third grade students in the city of Taif, at the levels of listening comprehension and creative thinking separately and collectively compared to the usual methods used in teaching English. In order to achieve this goal, the researcher used the quasi-experimental approach with two groups control and experimental. Two tests were used, one to measure listening comprehension skills and the other to measure creative thinking skills, and after ascertaining the validity and reliability of the two tests it had been applied previously to study sample which consisted of (55) students from the secondary third grade in Taif in the first semester of 1434 A Hijri, by (28) students in the experimental group and (27) in the control group. After the end of the experiment that lasted for one month, was then applied to the sample. By using Averages, standard deviations and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) the following results were reached: presence of statistically significant differences between the two groups of the study in the listening comprehension skill test separately and collectively, as well as the presence of statistically significant differences between the two groups in creative thinking skill test separately and collectively and the differences were in favor of the group experimental. In the light of these results, the study recommended encouraging English teachers to use differentiated teaching strategy in teaching, training teachers and educational supervisors on using it during their service and introduce them to its advantages, benefits and ways by which education differentiation work, include differentiated teaching in the theoretical and practical academic courses in colleges of education, training students to these modern educational strategy. (Published abstract)