Effects Of The Infusion Of I-Think Maps On Low Proficiency Esl Students Writing Performance

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dc.contributor.authorSovakandan, Hemahdevi
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-24T01:33:21Z
dc.date.available2018-01-24T01:33:21Z
dc.date.issued2017-08
dc.description.abstractThe importance of thinking skills for writing is often neglected by teachers. In the English language classroom practices, it can be used to help the students to “think” of the contents before writing their essays. As such, this paper investigated the effectiveness of i-Think Maps; mainly the Circle Map, Tree Map and Flow maps for the development of overall written performance among 40 low proficiency students. The students were taught on how to develop content in their narrative essay using the three maps in combination based on selected three chapters from the Form 4 textbook. Qualitative and quantitative data involving pre and post-tests, focus group interviews and classroom observations were analysed. The study used MANOVA and paired t-tests to determine the significance of the intervention given using the three i-Think Maps chosen. The MANOVA analyses revealed that there were no statistically significant differences in the students' overall written performance and their ability to develop content in writing between the experimental and control groups. This is due to the very limited vocabulary in the English language and the inability of the students to write grammatically accurate sentences. However, the paired t-tests concluded that there was a statistically significant difference within the experimental group that was given the intervention. The use of i-Think Maps encouraged more participative writing task by students as shown by the interviews.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/5453
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversiti Sains Malaysiaen_US
dc.subjectThe effectiveness of i-Think Mapsen_US
dc.subjectamong low proficiency students.en_US
dc.titleEffects Of The Infusion Of I-Think Maps On Low Proficiency Esl Students Writing Performanceen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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