The Positive Effect Of Concept Map On Senior High School Students’ Writing Competence

English writing which has a prominent position is one of the most importantlanguage skills, and it is a most important way for students to express their opinionsand show their English competence. But in the actual English teaching, especiallyEnglish teaching in senior school, teachers tend to put the emphasis on teachingvocabulary and grammar, so the result is that students are afraid of English writing.Some senior high school students have the writing problems like digressing thewriting topic, selecting the wrong words or expression. The teachers only focus on thescores after writing test, and some of them can not find the effective and effectiveway to help students with their English Writing.Concept map as a visual teaching and learning strategy has become popular inwestern countries, especially in Europe and the United States in1980s. It can makestudents get into the habit of combining new knowledge with the writing requirementin examinations. As an effective learning strategy, concept map can not only letstudents have effective writing strategies but also has a significant impact onimproving their writing competence.The thesis mainly explores an application of concept map in English writingteaching in senior high school.122pre-questionnaires,60post-questionnaires and1interview data in total have been collected over6months. SPSS is utilized to dealwith the students’ pre-test scores and post-test scores. The positive effect of conceptmap on senior high school student’s writing competence is analyzed by means of thecombination of qualitative and quantitative methods.After six months of experiments, the author tested the experimental class, andthen gave an effective analysis of concept map in English writing teaching. It can beseen that the concept map has an effective influence on improving students’ writingcompetence. It can solve the student’s problems like digressing the writing topicwriting and helps them select the proper words, organize good structure and contents.Finally, based on the results of study, some pedagogical implications areprovided to English teachers for their teaching in and out of class.