The Effect of Using Mind Maps to Enhance EFL Learners' Writing Achievement and Students' Attitudes Towards Writing at Taif University

Abstract

Writing in general, second language writing in particular, can be an obstacle for some students.The reason why writing can be hard to learn is that writers face many challenges the moment they start writing.The challenges could be from gathering the ideas to be written, planning of the outline, focusing on sentence structure, choosing the appropriate expressions, and also making sure of the organization.Moreover, these challenges can cause students to have negative attitudes towards writing.Previous studies suggest that using writing strategies can help student control the writing process which have a positive effect on their writing achievement and their attitudes towards writing.The strategy of mind mapping is used as a pre-writing strategy to help writers visualize the structure of their writing.However, the researcher proposes using mind mapping strategy not only to organize ideas, but also to organize grammatical and linguistic knowledge.This study investigates the effect of using this mind mapping strategy as a pre-writing strategy to enhance female language learners' writing achievement and their attitudes towards writing in English at Taif University, Saudi Arabia.In a quasi-experimental design, a mixed methods approach was adopted by collecting quantitative and qualitative data.The study population is 128 students in an experimental group (n1= 57) and a control group (n2=71).The former received the treatment of

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