An Empirical Study of the Application of Mind Mapping in College English Reading-Writing Teaching

Zhang Chao ； Li Rong

《IETI Transactions on Social Sciences and Humanities》 6卷 (2020/03) Pp. 45-57

https://doi.org/10.6896/IETITSSH.202003_6.0005

摘要

Based on the input and output hypothesis, the author constructs the reading-writing combined teaching model aided by mind mapping, and applies it to the teaching practice. This research lasted for a semester with the aim to study the specific impact of the model on the content relevance, structural logicality and language clarity of writing and students attitude to the new teaching model. The results show that the students in the experimental class get higher scores than those in the control class in the post-test, which further demonstrates the teaching model can improve students writing proficiency in terms of the content relevance and logical coherence, but its effect of improving the language clarity is not obvious. In addition, most students in the experimental class have positive attitude towards this teaching model.

關鍵字

Mind mapping ； reading-writing combined teaching model ； collage English teaching ； experimental research