The Application of Mind Mapping in Business English Reading Teaching

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10.2991/icesame-17.2017.424How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Mind map; Business English; tool; visualization

Abstract

With the continuous development and improvement of science and technology in China, the use value of mind mapping in Business English reading teaching is becoming more and more obvious. In actual teaching, teachers can scientifically and reasonably on the mind map application, make full use of the advantages and characteristics of the mind map, which makes the discourse teaching more efficiently, improve the English teaching quality and efficiency. British scholar Tony Buzan pointed out that the use of mind mapping, can effectively improve the efficiency of note taking, improve memory and enhance creativity. The application of mind mapping can improve the students' understanding and learning efficiency of teaching content, stimulate students to participate in teaching activities, and help students to achieve the common construction of knowledge. With the development of cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics, linguists have found that reading is a kind of complex mental activity to obtain information from written language. The reading process is based on the application and processing of the existing linguistic knowledge, and the inference of the deep semantic structure and the deep meaning of the corpus. Therefore, this study through the use of the mind map, show the theme of discourse and details in College EFL reading teaching process, the discourse surface between vocabulary and context and deep relationship, so as to help the students to integrate new and old knowledge structure, realize the internalization of knowledge and meaning construction. Mind mapping is also called mind map, which is a kind of effective visualization cognitive tool invented by Tony Buzan in 1960s. Buzan thinks that mind mapping is the expression of divergent thinking and the natural function of human thinking.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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