| Vocabulary learning is quite important for learning a language. If language learners do not have certain amounts of vocabulary, it is rather difficult for them to understand language and even to communicate with others. Improving the quality of vocabulary teaching becomes one of the objectives of the current English teaching. At present, there are still a lot of problems existing in English vocabulary teaching. Under this circumstance, an effective method to teach English vocabulary is in great need. This thesis is based on the current English vocabulary teaching situation and improves the efficiency of English vocabulary teaching by exploring the application of Mind Map in junior middle schools.Mind Map is an effective graphic thinking tool in expressing radiant thinking which is widely used in memory, study, thinking and so on. Mind Map is a visual tool for the knowledge representing. According to the radiant thinking characteristics of the human beings and the different themes, knowledge and relevance of Mind Map, it promotes the understanding and memorizing of the knowledge by providing abundant colors, lines, charts and so on. It can add people’s interest and arouse people’s thinking and can also improve the efficiency of memory and creativity.There are two hypotheses in this study. Hypothesis one: The application of Mind Map to English vocabulary teaching will increase students’ learning interest in English vocabulary learning in junior middle schools. Hypothesis two: Mind Map will improve the efficiency of English vocabulary teaching in junior middle schools. To test the hypotheses above, the author conducted a two-month teaching experiment about Mind Map in Qinghe NO.2 Middle School. The subjects of the study are students who come from two parallel classes in Grade Eight in Qinghe NO.2 Middle School. The author defines Class 7 as the experimental class and defines Class 8 as the control class. The experimental class is taught under Mind Map Model meanwhile the control class is taught in the traditional method. The study uses the methods of questionnaires, tests and interviews to collect data to do further analysis. The study uses the software SPSS 17.0 to make relevant analysis.The research results are as follows. Firstly, the application of Mind Map to Englishvocabulary teaching will increase students’ learning interest in English vocabulary learning in junior middle schools. Secondly, Mind Map will improve the efficiency of English vocabulary teaching in junior middle schools. Through the research results, the study testifies the hypotheses.This study can not only provide teachers with an example if they want to use Mind Map in teaching, but can also serve as a base for teachers to improve this model and do research based on the existing data. |
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