A systematic Review of Research on Mind Mapping and Concept Mapping to Develop Reading Comprehension

English Language Teaching, Pedagogy of English

This paper reviews research about the use of mind maps and concept maps for learning and developing reading comprehension. Although plethora of research have been conducted and explored the effective reading practices with reading strategies as SQ3R, research about the meaningful learning theories and their effects in information organizers are less firmly established. The paper reviewed literature systematically, analysis of variables and discussion of findings. The learners who used mind maps or concept maps found easier to recall the information, explain the concepts, answer the comprehension questions, writing summaries and they have outperformed those who learnt with traditional reading strategies. The review suggests for future research in reading comprehension with mind maps or concept maps as a simplified concept management and meaningful organization of information graphically.

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