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【关键词】：思维导图；英语写作；初中英语
Introduction
Listening, speaking, reading, and writing are the four basic elements of learning English. Nevertheless, writing ability is actually the reflection of the ability of listening, speaking, and reading in the process of English learning. In fact, it also indicates that writing ability is both comprehensive and complex. Meanwhile, it is also an dianoetic process. English writing is a kind of art which intent to use written communication. And it is the advanced stage of English learning as well as the language output stage (Zhang Dan,2005).
All in all, it is expected that this essay will summarize some useful methods for English writing in classroom teaching.
1. Introduction of Mind Mapping
In 1960s, Mind Mapping was firstly invented by Tony Buzan , a British psychologist, a educator as well as the Chairman of the Brain Foundation, who is also a gifted brain expert. Although the primary purpose of proposing this concept is to train those who suffered from reading disabilities and learning disabilities, this new concept has been developed and applied in all kinds of fields. Many of his books such as Make the Most of Your Mind, Use Both Sides of Your Brain, Speed Reading, Use Your Perfect Memory, and Brain Training, have created a great influence on various fields during the years.
2.Previous researches on Mind Mapping in English Teaching
2.1 Researches on Mind Mapping at home
Here our focus is put on the application of Mind Mapping in English teaching practice, and major studies involve Mind Mapping in reading teaching, grammar teaching,writing teaching, and vocabulary teaching in this respect. In recent years, numerous researchers have try hard to explore the application of Mind Mapping in teaching practice. The representative studies include Mind Maps-Junior English and Mind Maps-Senior English, written by Qi Wei(2008). Additionally, other researchers, such as Bai Yuerong(2008), Zeng Yanyan(2008), Guo Liangying(2008), Wei Hongxia(2010), Wang Lixin(2011), Zhang Dan(2007) have conducted some empirical research questions cover applying Mind Mapping in learning grammar, analyzing texts and reciting texts, with an aim to improve students’ comprehensive ability in English learning.
2.2 Researches on Mind Mapping abroad
Since 1960s, Mind Mapping has been applied in many fields abroad such as education, business, science and so on. Since Mind Mapping was brought into education, it has developed a great positive influence on teaching. Mind Mapping, which as an effective instrument of radiant thinking, has been applied in curriculum reform of schools at abroad. There are advanced in mind-developing thinking ability in many developed countries. Meanwhile, some foreign countries have continued to apply Mind Mapping on classroom teaching. Mind Mapping has been utilized in numerous teaching plans in National Educational Technology Standards of America. Nowadays, Mind Mapping has been introduced into both primary and middle education, and the book Children’s Mind Mapping has become a required book for young parents in Singapore. Besides, Mind Mapping is also read by the professors in a lot of world-famous universities.
3. Application of Mind Mapping Model on English writing teaching
3.1The Application of Mind Mapping in the Teaching Design of Junior English Writing
Ministry of Education announced the "2017 college entrance examination reform program" on the English college entrance examination has made important adjustments.In some pilot provinces, English will be used as a social examination, and students attend the examinations several times among three years in senior high school and take the highest score included in the college entrance examination total score. This is an important reform of the Chinese college entrance examination, showing that people's education thought has undergone great changes: the ultimate end of education is not teaching but learning; education should be people-oriented; fully embodies the subjective initiative; to meet the learner's self-development needs.
3.2 The Characteristics of Teaching Design Based on Mind Mapping
1.Give full play to the divergent thinking of students; to maximize the mobilization of all the background knowledge of them; to solve the problem of nothing to write. The ability of developing divergent thinking is critical to student writing.
2.Usecolor, lines, keywords, charts, to build a complete information architecture, training students "whole brain thinking." According to the known brain science research results, the human left and right brain have a different division of labor.
3.Drawing mind maps is organized in groups, and each student has the opportunity to speak and can fill in his own branch (idea). There are no merits and demerits in Mind Maps. When students drawing the map, there is no teachers evaluation of pressure. Drawing maps is to help them complete the composition.
3.3 Application of Mind Mapping Model on Argumentative writing teaching
Following is the Senior high school entrance examination of Mi Yun of Beijing for an example to analyze:
The summer holiday is coming, the class discuss the holiday plan, but the class has different opinions about the plan. Some students want to travel with family, and some want to play basketball with classmates. What is you opinion? Please talk about your opinion and plan. (Feng,2016）
Key words: the summer holiday, come, your classmates, talk about, play, think, do
There are two steps of making the mind mapping. Firstly, according to the title of the essay, teachers can lead students to pick up three words: travel, ball and plan. Then around the words to make a mind mapping in 5 aspects: what, when, where, why and how. And students are required to think about more synonyms and choose the better ones. The mind mapping is following(Figue3-2):
(Figue3-2)
Then write the essay according to the mind mapping, then check it.
Conclusion
From above, we can see Mind Mapping Model is of great significance in English writing teaching. It is effective to improve students English writing results. This study proves that students are more outperform under the writing teaching environment with Mind Mapping Model than the ones under traditional teaching pattern. Meanwhile, implementing Mind Mapping Model in the English writing teaching can help students to have a positive attitude of English writing.
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论文作者:黎美英
论文发表刊物:《教育学文摘》2019年16期
论文发表时间:2020/1/6
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