Proposed Enrichment Activities Based on Cognitive Flexibility Theory (CFT) to Treat Difficulties in Learning Chemistry in English and Develop Motivation among Students of Official Language Secondary Schools

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Faculty of Education - Benha University - Egypt

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The aim of the current research is to identify the primary uses of Ali’s list and experience the industries of learning difficulties in chemistry in the English language, motivating students of official language secondary schools, identifying the sources of difficulties in learning chemistry, and then applying the diagnostic test in the English language in the “Quantitative Chemistry” unit. “The technical representative of the study community had to return to her (420) first-year secondary students in official language schools, and then a bottom-up philosophy was built for the adaptive technology list for the unit “ Quantitative Chemistry”  was assessed on first-year secondary school students in public language schools in the first semester of the academic year 2023/2024. To achieve the research objectives, the two research tools, namely the Chemistry Difficulties Test in the English language and the Motivation to Learn Chemistry Scale, were applied to a sample of (30) first-year secondary students at Ahmed School. Zewail Official Secondary School of Languages suffers from learning difficulties, then applied enrichment activities based on the theory of cognitive flexibility, and applied two post-research tools to them, The results of the research resulted in the effectiveness of enrichment activities based on cognitive flexibility in treating the difficulties of learning chemistry in the English language and developing motivation to learn. In light of the results of the research, the researcher presented a number of recommendations, the most prominent of which is the use of the principles of cognitive flexibility theory in teaching chemistry in the English language

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