English Teachers’ View on Mind Mapping on How to Teach Reading Comprehension

English Language Teaching

This paper aimed to study the effect of mind mapping on reading comprehension of a text and teachers’ view on mind map as a resource to teach learners how to read and comprehension a text in a better way. The research has met twenty-five teachers of English Language and conducted interview on reading comprehension, note-making, information organizers, mind mapping, concept mapping and any other strategy to enhance learners’ reading comprehension. The interviews were analyzed and the results showed that constructing mind maps while reading helps the learners to comprehend the text better. The teachers expressed that the process of mind mapping helps to improve their lesson planning, giving instruction and teaching becomes more easier and motivating the learners to create mind maps with images and colours to represent the information visually which gets attention and attraction, and the text becomes more meaningful to the learners.

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