Improving reading comprehension skills on a short fictional text using mind maps in a tenth grade foreign language
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Aug 3, 2020
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Learning strategies, metacognitive strategies, mind maps, reading, reading comprehension
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Many foreign language students face challenges in the classroom when dealing with reading comprehension activities resulting in poor school performance. Therefore, this study aims at helping tenth-grade students in a public school located in Santander to improve their reading comprehension skills on a short fictional text by using mind maps as a learning strategy and also to help students become independent and self-directed learners. A pre-test and a post-test, as well as field notes were used to analyze students' usage of mind maps to demonstrate comprehension of a short fictional text. The results of this study showed that students benefited from the teacher's modeling of the mind maps in order to understand a short text because students were able to add more details to their mind maps after the intervention. Furthermore, the evidence indicated that mind maps benefited a student with learning impairment to improve his vocabulary and reading comprehension skills of a short reading text.
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Gómez-Pereira, D., & Villarreal Manotas, W. (2020). Improving reading comprehension skills on a short fictional text using mind maps in a tenth grade foreign language. Shimmering Words: Research and Pedagogy E-Journal, 9, 62-97. Retrieved from http://revistas.ustatunja.edu.co/index.php/shimmering/article/view/1989
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Methods Approaches. SAGE Publications. Retrieved from https://books.google.com.co/books?id=EbogAQAAQBAJ
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Nassaji, H. (2011). Issues in Second-Language Reading: Implications for Acquisition and Instruction. Reading Research Quarterly, 46(2), 173–184. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/41203420
Nesbit, J. C., & Adesope, O. O. (2006). Learning with concept and knowledge maps: A meta-analysis. Review of Educational Research, 76(3), 413–448.
Nunan, D. (1991). Language teaching methodology: a textbook for teachers. Prentice-Hall.
O’Malley, J. M., & Chamot, A. U. (1990). Learning Strategies in Second Language Acquisition. Cambridge University Press.
Oxford, R L. (1990). Language learning strategies: what every teacher should know. Newbury House Publisher.
Oxford, R L. (2013). Teaching & Researching: Language Learning Strategies. Taylor & Francis.
Oxford, Rebecca L. (2011). Strategies for learning a second or foreign language. Language Teaching, 44(2), 167–180. Retrieved from: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444810000492
Rahimi, M., & Katal, M. (2012). Social and Metacognitive strategies awareness and success in learning English as a foreign language : an overview, 31(2011), 73–81. Retrieved from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.12.019
Rosciano, A. (2015). The effectiveness of mind mapping as an active learning strategy among associate degree nursing students. Teaching and Learning in Nursing, 10(2), Retrieved from: 93–99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.teln.2015.01.003
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Zhussupova, R., & Kazbekova, M. (2016). Metacognitive strategies as points in teaching reading comprehension. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 228(June), 593–600. Retrieved from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2016.07.091