Abstract

Under the impetus of the New Curriculum Reform tide, the mind map has been widely used in most of the junior high schools, especially in the English reading courses. Unlike other teaching methods, the mind map is a graphical technique which can organize and characterize the divergent thinking and it was used more widely. This paper is focused on the definition, procedures and current situation of the mind map in high school English reading courses. Besides, I also did a survey with students from 9 national demonstrative  high schools in Chengdu, the results of this survey shows that there are few teachers using mind map as a new teaching method, as a contrary, most teachers use the mind map as homework or exercise, which didn’t make the mind map do best. So this paper, taking these high schools in Chengdu for example, discusses the achievements, some potential problems and disadvantages in the process of carrying out the mind map and what we can do to solve these problems.

Key words: The mind map; senior English; reading class; English study

Contents

Abstract

摘要

1.Introduction-5

1.1.The Necessity of Applying the Mind Map-5

1.2 Practical Purposes of Applying the Mind Map-6

2. A Brief Review of the Mind Map-6

2.1 The Definition of the Mind Map-7

2.2 The History of the Mind Map-7

2.3How To Do A Mind Map-8

3 .The Research of the Application of the Mind Map in High Schools of Chengdu-10

3.1  The Research Purposes-10

3.2 Research Methods and the Participants-10

3.3 Data Collection and Analysis-11

3.3.1 The Percentage of the English Teachers Use the Mind Map-11

3.3.2 The Ways of Students Use the Mind Map-12

3.3.3 The Time about the Students Use the Mind Map-12

3.3.4 Students’ Opinion about the Mind Map-12

3.3.5 Teachers’ Opinion about the Mind Map-13

3.3  The Results and Discussion-14

3.3.1  The Advantages of Application of the Mind Map in English Reading Courses-14

3.3.2  The Disadvantages of Application of the Mind Map in English Reading Courses-16

Conclusion-17

Bibliography-18

Acknowledgments-20