The Effect of Guided Imagery Strategy on EFL University Students' Critical Thinking in Teaching Novel

This study aims at ; Finding the role of Guided Imagery strategy on EFL university students ’ achievement in teaching novel in the posttest .Assessing the average level of the third stage students’ achievement in critical thinking. These aims achieved through verifying the following hypotheses; There is a difference between the mean scores of experimental group taught by Guided Imagery and mean scores of control group taught by conventional method. There is a difference between the average level of students’ achievement and theoretical level of achievement in posttest. .Sample 110 students have selected from Tikrit University third stage during academic year 2023- 2024. It divided into two groups.Both groups have equalized in their age , parents’ educational attainment , The experimental group has been taught according to the Guided Imagery strategy ,while control group has been taught by using the conventional method .An achievement test has constructed , applied to the two groups. The results show Guided Imagery Strategy is more effective than conventional method for developing critical thinking skill analyzing, explaining ,evaluating complex information in the text .Based on the results.