Incorporating Mindmapping into EFL classrooms

• 1. Integrating Mindmapping into English Classroom Sandra Wu [email_address]

2. Todays 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

3. Integrating Mind-mapping in Memorizing Vocabulary 4. Joy, Book 2 Unit 1 5. Joy, Book 2 Unit 2& 3 6. Joy, Book 2 Unit 4 7. Joy, Book 2 Unit 5 8. 9. Surprises!

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10. 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) 11. Pre-readingActivities

• Activatebackgroundknowledge/ 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 texts vocabulary but is unfamiliar with the topic will rely on word knowledge in order to comprehend a text. (Mikulecky,What is Reading?) 12. Brainstorming- Webbing 13. 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 )

14. Why Use Semantic Maps / Graphic Organizers?

• visualization

• process and get the information more effectively

• reduce anxiety

15. Joy, Book 5, Unit 8 16. Graphic Organizer of Joy, Book 5, Unit 8 17. Graphic Organizer

• a visual and graphic displaythat depicts the relationships between facts, terms, or ideas

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

• allow for the information to bewritten or drawn

18. http:// www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers / 19. 20. 21. Joy, Book 5, Unit 1 22. Graphic Organizer of Joy, Book 5, Unit 1 23. Joy, Book 5, Unit 4 24. Graphic Organizer ofJoy, Book 5, Unit 4 25. Joy, Book 5, Unit 6 26. Graphic Organizer of Joy, Book 5, Unit 6 27. Joy, Book 6, Unit 1 28. 29. Joy, Book 6, Unit 2 30. Joy, Book 6, Unit 2 31. 32. Joy, Book 6, Unit 3 33. Joy, Book 6, Unit 3 34. 35. Graphic Organizers Enhance Writing 36. 37. The End Thank you! Sandras Blog:http:// blog.yam.com/doggerwu