Use of Group Discussion and Mind Mapping Strategies in Essay Writing
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Date
2021
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Department of English Education
Abstract
This research entitled Use of Group Discussion and Mind Mapping
Strategies in Essay Writing aims at exploring the effectiveness of group
discussion and mind mapping strategies and to find out the problems in essay
writing of secondary level learners. This is an action study for which I selected a
community school of Gorkha district as a sample using non-random purposive
sampling procedure. I observed 25 students from class ten. Pre-tests, progressivetests
and post-tests,
observation
checklist,
unstructured
interview
and
documentation
review
were
the main
tools
of
data collection.
The major
findings
of
this study
were students
had various
problems
in their
essay
writing
mostly
the
grammatical
errors, weak
organization
of
ideas,
and incorrect
format.
And group
discussion
and mind
mapping
were
the effective
strategies
to improve
students‟
essay
writing.
Group
discussion
helped
to
generate
more
ideas
and
mind
mapping
strategy
helped
students
to plan and
organize
their
ideas on
a particular
topic to
develop
an essay.
These
strategies also
helped
to
complete
their writing
within the
certain
time
and
they
were
able to
change
their
attitude
positively
towards
writing.
This thesis consists of five different chapters. The first chapter
'introduction' includes the background of the study, statement of the problem,
objectives, research questions, significance and delimitation of the study. The
second chapter deals with the review of theoretical perspectives, earlier related
empirical literature, implications of the literature review and conceptual
framework. The third chapter deals with the methodology employed to conduct the
study. It provides information about the design of the study, population of the
study, sampling procedures, data collection tools and data collection procedures.
Data are presented, analyzed and interpreted in the fourth chapter. Lastly, the fifth
chapter consists of findings, conclusion and recommendations of the study. This
chapter is followed by references and appendices to make the study reliable and
authentic.
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Keywords
Essay writing, Mind mapping, pedagogical implications