Acknowledgements I would like to express my appreciation to a number of people for their invaluable assistance in preparation and development of this thesis with my sincere gratitude.44140
My most sincere thanks should be sent to my tutor for his valuable ideas, patient guidance and critical suggestions. His profound knowledge and professional ethics not only help me overcome the difficulties in writing this thesis, but also let me know how to face difficulties and frustration in my life.
Meanwhile, I am also grateful for the teachers and students involved in the experiment in Ciji Middle School for their cooperation.
Last but not least, I’d like to extend my sincere thanks to my parents for their love and care.
A Research on the Application of Mind Mapping to Enhance English Reading Ability
Abstract English is a major subject in junior middle school and reading plays an important part in English learning. Regrettably, there are some problems in reading teaching and learning in junior middle school. For instance, English teachers pay most attention to explaining sentences and phrases but rather the ideas behind the material, which are just what the author wants to express. So there is a great need to improve this teaching methodology and enhance students’ reading ability in practical. Mind mapping, which makes full use of color, images and symbols, is a highly effective way of getting information in and out of your mind, which has been used in various fields including language teaching. This thesis attempts to use Mind Mapping to enhance reading ability. By designing relative maps, this thesis aims to explore whether Mind Mapping serves to promote junior middle students’ reading abilities and the differences between the experimental class and the control class. This research fulfills the following tasks:
Firstly, this thesis gives an introduction of the research, in which the significance of reading, the problems exiting in English reading teaching in China, the significance and purposes of this thesis will be clarified.
Secondly, this thesis reviews the current studies of Mind Mapping at home and abroad.
Thirdly, this thesis attempts to find out how Mind Mapping can enhance reading ability of students.
Fourthly, this thesis designs an experiment in Ciji Middle School in Ningbo and collects abundant data of the using Mind Mapping in class to enhance reading ability.
Key words: Mind Mapping; English Reading Teaching; Reading Ability
利用思维导图提高初中生英语阅读能力
摘 要英语阅读是中学生英语学习中的一个很重要的部分，但很遗憾的是，当今中国的中学生在学习英语时却存在着一些问题。例如，初中英语教师在上阅读课时的关注点是词组，句子的意思及搭配等，却忽视了阅读的原本目的—领会作者的意图，扩充自己的知识面。这样一来阅读课就需要改进`优尔^文*论|文\网www.youerw.com，学生的阅读能力也亟待提高。思维导图是一种利用颜色，图像和符号等来便于我们记忆与提取知识的一种学习方法，至今已被应用到包括语言学习在内的许多领域。本文旨在探究思维导图是否真的能提高学生的阅读能力以及运用思维导图进行阅读的学生和传统阅读的学生的区别。
Contents
1. Introduction 1
1.1 Researches Background 1
1.2 Significance of the Research 2
1.3 Purpose of the Research 2
2. Literature Review 2
2.1 Previous Foreign Researches on Mind Mapping 利用思维导图提高初中生英语阅读能力:http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_45327.html