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September 29, 2025English Language TeachingOpen Access

Promoting Higher-Order Thinking in Saudi EFL Textbooks: A Comparative Study

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Content analysis highlights critical thinking in three Grade 7 textbook series, indicating integration and need for improvement.

Higher-order thinking skills are required in only 38% of tasks in the Super Goal series, indicating limited critical thinking promotion.
The Full Blast series shows significant limitations, with just 26.6% of tasks requiring higher-order thinking skills.
Content analysis reveals that lower-order thinking skills predominate across all three textbook series studied.
Despite some progress in textbook reform, evaluation tasks essential for fostering critical judgment remain underrepresented.

Sami Eid Alsuwat (2025) studied this question.

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