The Effect of Using Brainstorming Strategy in Improving the Skill of Writing and Critique of Thinking at Iraqi EFL Students

This study aims at developing knowledge in response to developments and challenges in all fields of life. It tackles one aspect in teaching English as a foreign language trying to prepare the Iraqi students to be capable of confrontation with those challenges through adopting appropriate techniques of thinking and learning. Brainstorming is one of these techniques that can be used with whatever suitable traditional methods of learning and teaching. Living in the age of openness and globalization, students can be well prepared to confront the present and future challenges by allowing their minds to generate concepts and ideas through specific techniques of brainstorming and different styles of thinking critique. Hence, students would be enabled to achieve knowledge understanding in accordance with the daily problems. This requires employing knowledge in problems solving within certain environments, activating the minds to develop their ability of thinking, brainstorming, innovation and creativity. Actually, brainstorming is regarded as a practical solution of students problems in the skill of writing and the strategy of creative thinking. This study attempts to examine the effect of brainstorming strategy in improving the skill of writing and critical thinking among students.