The Effect of the CoRT Program for the Development of Thinking Skills

It has become imperative for modern education to keep up with the tremendous developments that included all walks of life .Since thinking is a necessity imposed by the current era (Bowkett,2006), and because of the rapid developments and changes witnessed by the world, the need to creative minds that are capable of adapting their circumstances with the change that occurs in the surrounding environments has emerged. In addition, the necessity to find different methods and strategies to cope with the new educational development and progress becomes urgent.Since teachers of English have to equip themselves with new methods and strategies (Vyas and Patel,2009), and because of the benefits reported by many researchers about usingthe CoRT in teaching different subject matters like history, science and the Arabic language, all of that paved the way for the current study.