incorporating mindmapping into efl classrooms

2009/ 09/08 Mind-mapping in 瑞原

Integrating Mindmapping into English Classroom

吳倖誼 Sandra Wu台北縣國中英語專任輔導員

台北縣立義學國中[email protected]


Today’s Agenda Introduction Mind-mapping in Memorizing

Vocabulary Mind-mapping in Reading 1. Pre-reading- Brainstorming 2. While-reading- Graphic Organizer/ Semantic Map Mind-mapping in Writing Software of mindmapping- MindMan,

Mind 42, Inspiration


Integrating Mind-mapping in Memorizing Vocabulary


Joy, Book 2 Unit 1


Joy, Book 2 Unit 2& 3


Joy, Book 2 Unit 4


Joy, Book 2 Unit 5


Surprises! The average

score: 13.4/16≒ 0.84


About Reading…

Bottom-up v.s. Top-down

A combination of top-down and bottom-up processing, or what has come to be called interactive reading, is almost always a primary ingredient in successful teaching methodology because both processes are important. (Brown, Teaching by Principles) In practice, a reader continually shifts from one focus to another, now adopting a top-down approach to predict probable meaning, then moving to the bottom-up approach to check whether that is really what the writer says. (Nuttall, 1996, p.17)


Pre-reading Activities Activate background knowledge/

schema/ prior knowledge

A reader will rely on knowledge about a known topic to sort out word meaning; conversely, a reader who has a mastery of the text’s vocabulary but is unfamiliar with the topic will rely on word knowledge in order to comprehend a text. (Mikulecky, What is Reading? )


Brainstorming- Webbing


While-reading activities- semantic map/graphic

organizer Readers can easily be

overwhelmed by a long string of ideas of events. The strategy of semantic mapping, or grouping ideas into meaningful clusters, helps the reader to provide some order to the chaos. (Brown, Teaching by Principles)


Why Use Semantic Maps / Graphic Organizers?

visualization process and get the information more effectively

reduce anxiety


Joy, Book 5, Unit 8


Graphic Organizer of

Joy, Book 5, Unit 8


Graphic Organizer a visual and graphic display that

depicts the relationships between facts, terms, or ideas

a one-page form with blank areas for the student to fill in with related ideas and information.

allow for the information to be written or drawn


http://www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers/





Joy, Book 5, Unit 1


Graphic Organizer of Joy, Book 5, Unit 1


Joy, Book 5, Unit 4


Joy, Book 5, Unit 6


Joy, Book 6, Unit 1


Joy, Book 6, Unit 2


Joy, Book 6, Unit 3


Graphic Organizers Enhance Writing


The EndThank you!

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