إتجاهات معلمات اللغة العربية في مدارس الحلقة الثانية بولاية الرستاق نحو استخدام الخرائط الذهنية في تدريس النصوص القرائية
This study aimed at identifying the attitudes of Arabic language female teachers attitudes second cycle school of wilayat Al-Rustaq towards using mind maps in teaching reading texts. The researcher has adopted the descriptive statistic approach. The study sample is consisted of (119) teachers from second cycle schools in Wilayat Al-Rustaq, who have been selected applying the purposive sampling. The study instrument has been administered to the study sample members. This study’s instrument is a scale consisted of 25 items and its validity has been measured through content validity and the validity of reliability coefficient identification. The reliability of the scale is (0.90) using Cronbach Alpha coefficient. The most important results of the study are as follows. The attitudes of Arabic Language female teachers attitudes in schools second cycle schools of wilayat Al-Rustaq towards using mind maps in teaching reading texts are high. There are no significant statistically differences at the level of (α=0.05) in two attitudes according to the variable of years of experience. Based on the above results, the study recommends raising the awareness of the importance of using mind maps in teaching reading texts in educational curricula in consistent with the educational content. It also recommends developing interesting mind maps to teach reading texts through drawings, using images and colors attracting teacher and student to enjoy teaching and learning. In addition, increasing the training and developmental courses for training Arabic language teachers on the strategy of mind maps in teaching reading texts as well as preparing a program for the exchange of educational experiences among Arabic language teachers in the preparing teaching aids in manual mind maps. (Published abstract)