DR. ARTURO G. PALAMING
Assistant Professor
Sur University College
Sultanate of Oman
ABSTRACT
In this paper, it talked about mind mapping as it
used in the classroom in teaching the English Language. Mind mapping was a
popular teaching strategy nowadays because of its effectiveness on the
performance of the students. This strategy used simple and pictures or images
to represent the concept or idea of the students which is related to the
general idea.
KEYWORDS
Mind mapping, teaching strategy in teaching English
Language, mind map, mind guide and concept formation
INTRODUCTION
Mind mapping is a system for helping students order and
structure their reasoning through rationally mapping words and ideas and
pictures. They are substantially faster to make, and on account of their visual
quality significantly less demanding to recall and survey. The contrast between
idea maps and mind maps is that a mind outlines just a single fundamental idea,
while an idea guide may have a few. An entire mind map guide may have principle
point lines transmitting every which way from the inside. Sub-themes and
certainties will fan out these. You don't have to stress over the structure
created – this will advance all alone. The accompanying recommendations may
build the adequacy of mind mapping:
1. Use
single words or basic expressions for data. A solitary solid word and
significant expressions can clarify a similar importance all the more
strongly.
2. Use
shading to isolate distinctive thoughts. This isolates thoughts where vital. It
additionally helps you to imagine the mind delineate review. Shading
additionally demonstrates the association of the subject.
3. Use
images and pictures. Where an image or picture implies something to you,
utilize it. Pictures can help you to recall data more adequately than words.
4. Use cross-linkages. Data in one a player in the mind
guide may identify with another part. Attract lines to demonstrate the cross
linkages. This helps you to perceive how one a player in the subject influences
another and how they associate.
MIND MAPPING USE
IN THE ACTUAL CLASSROOM
Steps:
1. Removed strips and circles from cardboard. Talk about
the principle theme, compose on a hover of cardboard and place on the center of
the tangle.
2. Every youngster gives a principle thought regarding
the theme, and leaves and draws this thought on another hover of cardboard.
3. Every youngster likewise composes a few words about
their primary thought on discrete slips of cardboard.
4. As kids complete, the mind guide is collected on the
tangle with associations being made with the pieces of cardboard. This can be
stapled to the divider.
Steps (Other
Steps):
1. Begin in the focal point of the page with the primary
thought. Utilize single words or basic expressions for data.
2. The thought works outward every which way delivering
a developing and sorted out structure made out of catchphrases and key
pictures.
3. Utilize shading to isolate distinctive thoughts,
words, images, bolts and delineating gatherings of words. Utilize images and
pictures, shapes, circles, and limits to interface data or utilize bolts to
show circumstances and end results.
A mind map is a chart used to outwardly compose data. A
mind guide is various leveled and shows connections among bits of the entirety.
It is regularly made around a solitary idea, drawn as a picture in the focal
point of a clear page, to which related portrayals of thoughts, for example,
pictures, words and parts of words are included. Significant thoughts are
associated specifically with the focal idea, and different thoughts stretch out
from those.
Mind maps can be drawn by hand, either as "harsh
notes" amid an address, meeting or arranging the session, for instance, or
as higher quality pictures when additional time is accessible. Mind maps are
thought to be a sort of creepy crawly graph. A comparative idea in the 1970s
was "thought sun blasting".
HISTORY OF
MIND MAPPING
In spite of the fact that the expression "mind
map" was initially promoted by British prominent brain science creator and
TV character. According to Buzan (2000),
the utilization of charts that outwardly "outline" utilizing fanning
and spiral maps follows back hundreds of years. These pictorial strategies
record information and model frameworks, and have a long history in learning,
conceptualizing, memory, visual considering, and critical thinking by
instructors, designers, analysts, and others.
A portion of the soonest cases of such graphical records
was produced by Porphyry (2000), a prominent mastermind of the third century as
he graphically envisioned the idea classes of Aristotle. Thinker Ramon Llull
(1235–1315) likewise utilized such strategies. The semantic system was created
in the late 1950s as a hypothesis to comprehend human learning and grew to
assist by Allan M. Collins and M. Ross Quillian amid the mid-1960s. Mind maps
are comparative in spiral structure to idea maps, created by learning
specialists in the 1970s, however, vary in that the previous are disentangled
by centering on a solitary focal key idea.
Promotion of the expression "mind delineate" Buzan's
particular approach and the presentation of the expression "mind
delineate" amid a 1974 BBC TV arrangement he facilitated, called Use Your
Head. In this show and buddy book arrangement, Buzan advanced his origination
of outspread tree, outlining watchwords in a bright, brilliant, tree-like
structure. Buzan says the thought was enlivened by Alfred Korzybski's general
semantics as promoted in sci-fi books, for example, those of Robert A. Heinlein
and A. E. van Vogt. He contends that while "customary" frameworks
compel perusers to sweep left to right and start to finish, perusers really
tend to check the whole page in a non-direct mold. Buzan's treatment likewise
utilizes then-well-known suppositions about the elements of cerebral sides of
the equator with a specific end goal to clarify the asserted expanded viability
of mind mapping over different types of note making.
Mind map
guidelines
Buzan recommends the accompanying rules for making mind
maps:
1. Start in
the middle with a picture of the theme, utilizing no less than 3 hues.
2. Use
pictures, images, codes, and measurements all through your mind outline.
3. Select
watchwords and print utilizing upper or lower case letters.
4. Each
word/picture is best alone and sitting all alone line.
5. The lines ought to be associated, beginning from the focal
picture. The lines wind up noticeably more slender as they emanate out from the
middle.
6. Make the
lines an indistinguishable length from the word/picture they bolster.
7. Use different hues all through the mind outline, visual
incitement and furthermore to encode or gathering.
8. Develop
your very own style of mind mapping.
9. Use accentuation and show the relationship in your mind
outline.
10. Keep the mind delineate by utilizing outspread progressive
system or frameworks to grasp your branches.
USES OF MIND
MAPPING
Likewise,
with other charting apparatuses, mind maps can be utilized to produce,
envision, structure, and arrange thoughts, and as a guide to considering and
sorting out data, taking care of issues, deciding, and composing.
Mind maps
have numerous applications in individual, family, instructive, and business
circumstances, including note taking, conceptualizing (wherein thoughts are
embedded into the guide radially around the middle hub, without the verifiable
prioritization that originates from chain of importance or consecutive courses
of action, and wherein gathering and getting sorted out is saved for later
stages), compressing, as a memory aide method, or to deal with a confused
thought. Mind maps are likewise elevated as an approach to work together in
shading pen imagination sessions.
Notwithstanding these immediate utilize cases,
information recovered from mind maps can be utilized to improve a few different
applications; for example, master look frameworks, web indexes and hunt and
label question recommended. To do as such, personality maps can be broke down
with great strategies for data recovery to group a mind guide's creator or
reports that are connected from inside the mind outline.
DIFFERENCES OF
MIND MAPPING FROM OTHER STRATEGIES
Concept Maps – Mind maps differentiate
from thought maps in that mind maps focus on only a solitary word or thought,
while thought maps interface various words or contemplations. Also, thought
maps conventionally have content names on their interfacing lines/arms. Mind
maps rely on upon winding pecking requests and tree structures meaning
relationship with a central directing thought, however, thought maps rely on
upon relationship between thoughts in more extraordinary cases. In any case,
either can be a bit of a greater individual learning base system.
Modelling Graphs – There is no thorough
set in stone with mind maps, depending on the discretion of mental helper
frameworks. An UML outline or a semantic system has organized components
displaying connections, with lines interfacing items to show the relationship.
This is for the most part done in highly contrasting with a reasonable and
concurred iconography. Mind maps fill an alternate need: they help with memory
and association. Mind maps are accumulations of words organized by the mental
setting of the creator with visual memory helpers, and, using shading, symbols
and visual connections, are casual and important to the correct working of the
mind delineate.
RESEARCHES ABOUT
MIND MAPPING
Effectiveness
Cunningham (2005) drove a customer examine in which 80%
of the students thought "mind mapping helped them in improving their thoughts
and contemplations in science". Distinctive audits in like manner report
valuable results utilizing mind maps.
Farrand, Hussain, and Hennessy (2002) found that
dreadful little animal diagrams (like thought maps) had confined, however
basic, effect on memory audit in school understudies (a 10% development over
standard for a 600-word message just) when stood out from favoured survey
procedures (a 6% extension over benchmark).
This change was quite recently solid after seven days
for those in the framework accumulate and there was a tremendous decrease in
motivation stood out from the subjects' favored methodologies for note taking.
A meta find out about thought mapping contemplated that thought mapping is more
convincing than "scrutinizing content segments, going to locations, and
appreciating class talks".
A comparable audit furthermore contemplated that thought
mapping is fairly more practical "than other beneficial activities, for
instance, creating rundowns and structures". In like manner, they induced
that low-limit understudies may benefit more from mind mapping than high-limit students.
Features of Mind Maps
Beel and Langer (2011) led an exhaustive investigation
of the substance of mind maps. They dissected 19,379 personality maps from
11,179 clients of the mind mapping applications SciPlore Mind Mapping (now
Docear) and MindMeister.
It comes about incorporate that normal clients make just
a couple mind maps (mean=2.7), normal personality maps are fairly little (31
hubs) with every hub containing around 3 words (middle). Nonetheless, there
were special cases. One client made more than 200 personality maps, the biggest
personality outline of more than 50,000 hubs and the biggest hub contained 7500
words.
The review likewise demonstrated that between various
personality mapping applications (Docear versus MindMeister) noteworthy
contrasts exist identified with how clients make mind maps.
Automatic Creating of Mind Maps
There have been a few endeavors to make mind maps
consequently. Brucks and Schommer made personality maps naturally from
full-content streams. Rothenberger et al. separated the principle story of
content and introduced it as mind guide. What's more, there is a patent about
naturally making sub-themes as a top priority maps.
Pen and Paper and the Computer
There are two reviews that break down whether electronic
personality mapping or pen based personality mapping is more powerful.
Tools
Mind-mapping programming can be utilized
to sort out a lot of data, consolidating spatial association, dynamic various
leveled organizing and hub collapsing. Programming bundles can expand the idea
of mind-mapping by permitting people to guide more than considerations and
thoughts with data on their PCs and the Internet, similar to spreadsheets,
reports, Internet locales, and pictures. It has been proposed that mind-mapping
can enhance learning/think about productivity up to 15% over routine note-taking.
CONCLUSION
In summary, mind mapping is a strategy
that can be used in teaching the English Language such as Writing, Listening,
Reading, Vocabulary, and Speaking. In this strategy, the students developed a
mental image of the word through the use of a picture. The student can easily
understand and build their own experience about the word as written and the
mental that was drawn by them. The picture that was mentally built up by the
students becomes permanent in their mind. Building a mental image about the
word also build mental words related to the main idea or the main
concept.
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