The effectiveness of the literary circles strategy in developing literary criticism skills, Student teachers; in the Arabic Language Division; in the Faculty of Education - Alexandria University.

      The present study aimed to know the effectiveness of the literature circles strategy; in developing literary criticism skills; Student Teachers - Arabic Language Division; in the Faculty of Education - Alexandria University. Two research methods were used; They are: the descriptive-analytical approach; In presenting the skills of literary criticism and the strategy of literature circles, the quasi-experimental one-group approach was used; Two applications: before and after.
     The study tools consisted of: a questionnaire to determine the skills of literary criticism, as well as a test to measure the skills of literary criticism. Student's book and a teacher’s guide were prepared, and the study was pre-tested, then the study experiment was carried out, then the post-test, and then the statistical treatments were performed. The results were the following:
v  There is a statistically significant difference at the level (α < 0.05) between the mean scores of the study sample, in the two applications: pre and post; to test literary criticism skills; In favor of the dimensional application.
v  There is a statistically significant difference at the level (α > 0.05) between the mean scores of the study sample members, in the post application of the vocabulary of the literary criticism skills test, and its nominal average
v  The presence of a large impact size attributed to the strategy of literature circles; Where the value of eta square η2 (effect size) showed that the variance in the literary criticism skills test; Between the degrees of the two applications: the pre- and post-applications; reached (1.007); Which indicates a large effect size.
v  The literary circles strategy had a significant impact on developing literary criticism skills. the study sample; This confirms the higher (t) value in the post application of the study test than the pre application of the test itself.