MIND
MAPPING STRATEGY IN READING COMPREHENSION
Definition
of Mind Mapping Strategy
Mind mapping is a technique for using a diagram to make the students to be working in small group and they
represent words or ideas arranged around a key word or idea to show how they are coonected. It
typically takes the form of branches, like a tree or a network of words.
Mind maps make use of the human brain’s ability to associate
detailed information with one single image or topic. For example, if asked to
describe one ours friends, an image of our fiends would appear in your mind’s
eye and we could describe in some depth their appearance.
Mind Mapping is a learning
tool for ordering and structuring the thinking process of an individual or team
working on a focused theme. Armbruster and Anderson (1982:204-205) state
that Mind Mapping is a tool by which teacher and students can build a coherent
model of the meaning of the text. it serves to involve students with the
meaning of the text; it focuses their attention on text stucture; and it
provides for the transformation of prose into diagramatic or visual
representation.
Furthermore, they explain
that the mapping technique incorporates the visual-spatial conventions for diagramming idea and the nature of
relationship between idea: concept and example, concept and defenition,
temporal succession, cause and effect, condition and comparison.
Janet Townend and Martin
Tuner (2004:226) states mind mapping is
an effective way of making the reader visualize and later remember what he has
read. Asking him to cover his map and revisualize and describe the map afterwards will treble the likelihood
of his remembering the material.
Holland(2003/2004:78) find
Mind Mapping to be a useful technique for helping students plan and structure
their essays and projects more effectively, and the quality of their written
work and were able to draw value from the
technique for project managing
practical work.
Mind Mapping also can be used for brainstorming, bridges
discussions, share ideas, and even working on joint projects. can create a solution together colleagues in
the team (all the way, then there is writing on a piece of paper), could also
incorporate mind map of the team members (make each and combined), even a mind
map can be used as a slide presentation of each members to share ideas with
other.
In this way, an idea or subject can be summarized into a mind map
using key words branches, thus making the topic or subject easy to learn,
explore and remember. Mind mapping also is an effective
way to represent the information visual.it helps lern and review a large
variety of information and encourages generating new ideas and attitudes to the
issue.
According to Buzan, mind mapping is a strategy for helping students
order and structure their thinking through mentally mapping words or/and
concept. Mind mapping were developed by Toni Buzan as a way of helping students
make notes that used only key word and image. They are much quicker to make,
and because of their virtual quality much easier to remember and review. The
difference between concept map and mind maps is that a mind map has only one
mind concept, while a concept may have several.
