An Experimental Study Of The Application Of Mind Map To English Vocabulary Teaching In Junior High School

This thesis has studied the application of Mind Map to English vocabulary teaching in junior high school.As we all know,vocabulary is one of the indispensable factors of English,and vocabulary teaching has been a weak part in junior high schools in China for a long time.Students usually meet various difficulties in vocabulary learning,so we have to find an easy way for students to learn vocabulary.Mind map,which is one of the simple visual tools,can help students learn and memorize vocabulary efficiently and easily.Based on the theory of Mind Map,the theory of Knowledge Visualization and the theory of Learning Strategies,this thesis studied the following two questions: First,can the application of Mind Map to English vocabulary teaching improve the vocabulary learning strategies of students in junior high schools? Second,can the application of Mind Map to English vocabulary teaching improve the effectiveness of English vocabulary learning in junior high schools? To testify these two questions,the students in two parallel classes of Grade 7 from a junior high school were chosen as the subjects.The research mainly adopted questionnaire,interview and test as the research methods.The research data are analyzed by SPSS17.0 and software of Excel.Through the analysis and discussion of the collected data and information from the experiment,the author can draw a conclusion as follows: Firstly,the using of six vocabulary learning strategies has been improved in the experimental class,therefore the application of Mind Map to English vocabulary teaching in junior high school can improve the vocabulary learning strategies of students in junior high school.Secondly,after the experiment,the students of the experimental class had a significant improvement in their post-test scores,which indicates that the application of Mind Map to English vocabulary teaching can improve the effectiveness of English vocabulary learning in junior high school.The author hopes that this study can provide some references for the application of Mind Map in English vocabulary teaching in junior high schools and help to enhance the effectiveness of English vocabulary teaching and learning.