TITLE:
Research on the Application of Mind Mapping in Promoting English Learning Efficiency of High School Art and Sports Specialty Students
AUTHORS:
Xiulin Ma, Yujuan Jia, Xue Jiang, Zhinie Nie
KEYWORDS:
Mind Mapping, High School English Learning, The Application of Mind Mapping in English Teaching, Art and Sports Specialty Students, English Learning Efficiency
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.10 No.6,
June
29,
2022
ABSTRACT: Since the new curriculum reform, the requirements and difficulties of
high school English learning have generally increased, which has brought severe
challenges to teachers and students’ teaching and learning, especially for high
school art and sports students. This study mainly explores how to apply mind
mapping to senior high school art and sports students’ English learning, focusing
on word learning, reading comprehension and writing. The purpose of this study
is to study whether the English learning mode of senior high school art and
sports students assisted by mind mapping tools can stimulate students’ interest
in learning English and improve students’ learning ability, so as to explore a
set of effective modes and methods. The research adopts the methods of
literature research, questionnaire survey, classroom observation, interview and experimental research. Taking two
classes of art and sports specialty students in grade one of School B in
city a of Gansu Province as the research object, the experimental group and the
control group are set up respectively to carry out a course for a semester. The
results show that mind mapping has greatly improved
the level of emotional attitudes and values such as interest and
attitude in English learning of art and sports students in senior high school,
promoted the English vocabulary learning and reading comprehension ability of
art and sports students, and also played a very positive role in Teachers’ professional
growth and students’ autonomous learning.