The Application Of Mind Map In High School English Reading Teaching

As an international communicative language,English is an important way to understand the world and obtain information.In China,due to the lack of a certain English environment,reading has become one of the main ways for students to learn English.Therefore,the new curriculum reform and the college entrance examination of English have gradually put forward higher standards for senior high school students’ English reading ability.However,the main problems in the current English Reading Teaching in senior high school are that teachers pay too much attention to the explanation and inculcation of basic language kno wledge points in reading texts.Students’ language schemata have been fully trained,but the practice of content schemata and structure schemata are deficient.In the process of reading the text,the teacher explains too much instead of the students’ thinking.Teachers become the dominator of the classroom,while the students passively accept the input knowledge.Students’ participation is not high,and their reading interest is declining.Therefore,it is urgent to explore an effective teaching method of reading.In order to solve the contradiction between reading teaching methods and teaching effect,the mind map put forward by Tony Buzan has been widely used.Mind map is a visual representation tool based on schema theory and knowledge visualization theory.C lear primary and secondary information,clear frame structure,rich and diverse colors are the biggest characteristics of mind map.It is helpful to attract students’ attention and analyze the content of the text.The purpose of this study is to explore whether mind map can improve students’ English reading interest and reading ability by using English textbooks in senior high school as teaching materials and applying mind map to English reading teaching in senior high school.In this study,100 students from two parallel classes in H senior high school are selected as the experimental subjects,in which C lass A is the experimental class and Class B is the controlled class.A three-month teaching experimental study is conducted by using the methods of questionnaire,comparative experiment and interview.The data are collected and analyzed by SPSS25.0.Before the experiment,from the results of the questionnaire survey and the test paper,there is no significant difference in English reading interest and reading ability between the two classes.In the course of the experiment,there are only differences in teaching methods between the two classes.The experimental class adopts the reading teaching method of mind map.In the pre-reading,teachers use mind map to diverge students’ thinking and stimulate students’ interest in reading.In the while-reading,students deepen text information and enrich content schema and structural schema in the process of drawing mind map.After reading,students review the text and strengthen the output through mind map.The controlled class continues to adopt the traditional reading teaching mode.After the experiment,the study is made a comparative analysis and summary of the pre-test and post-test of questionnaires and test papers.The results show that the reading interest,low-level reading ability and high-level ability of the students in the experimental class have been significantly improved,while the students in the controlled class have also improved compared with the pre-test,but there is no obvious change.At the same time,in order to gain an in-depth understanding of the effect of the application of mind map in English reading class,ten students in the experimental class were randomly selected and interviewed,and all the students held a positive attitude towards the application of mind map.It can be concluded that the application of mind map in English reading teaching in senior high school can enhance students’ reading interest,improve their reading ability,and improve both low-level ability and high-level ability.This provides some references for the later English reading teaching in senior high school.