TY - BOOK AU - Sahar Farouk Ahmad Haroon AU - Abdelrehim Saad Eldin Elhilaly , AU - Ali Ahmad Madkour , TI - The effect of using the problem solving strategy on developing the creative writing skills and interest of preparatory pupils towards EFL / PY - 2014/// CY - Cairo : PB - Sahar Farouk Ahmad Haroon , KW - Creative writing KW - Interest towards EFL KW - Problem solving strategy N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Institute of Educational Studies and Research - Department of Curriculum and Methods of Teaching; Issued also as CD N2 - The current study aimed at investigating the effect of using the problem solving strategy on developing the creative writing skills and interest of preparatory pupils towards EFL. The sample of the study consisted of 60 second year preparatory female pupils. Two intact classes were randomly chosen from Alfaisaleia public education school. One class of thirty pupils served as the experimental group and the other one as control. Tools of the study included a checklist to identify the creative writing skills needed for second year preparatory pupils in paragraph and composition writing , a pre - post creative writing test and its scoring scale, and an interest scale . results revealed the positive effect of the problem solving strategy on developing second year preparatory pupils' creative writing skills, but there was not enough evidence of a significant improvement of the pupils' interest towards EFL UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -