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1、39ModernJournalofLanguageTeachingMethods(MJLTM)EFLLEARNERS’ATTITUDESTOWARDSUSINGMINDMAPPINGTECHNIQUEINTHEIRREADINGCOMPREHENSIONMahsaHaririM.A.studentofTEFL,UniversityofGuilanmahsa.hariri@yahoo.comAbdorrezaTahririAssistantProfessorofTEFL,UniversityofGuilanatahriri@gmail.comABSTRACTReadingispur
2、posefulandrequiresactiveinvolvementonbehalfofthereaders,asduringreadingatext,theyhavedifferentaimstoachieve(Koda,2005).AsGambrell,Block,andPressley(2002)namescomprehensionasthemostimportantpartofreading,helpingstudentstocopewithcomplicatedtextstheyfaceisoneofthecrucialpartsofteachingEnglishto
3、EFLlearners.Amongdifferentstrategiesthatareappliedtoimprovereadingcomprehension,mnemonics,anditsmorerecenttype,mindmapsareprominent.Mindmapsthataregraphicandvisualpresentationofmaterials,wasfirstintroducedbyBuzaninthelate19thcentury.ThepurposeofthisstudywastoinvestigatetheattitudesofEFLlearne
4、rstowardsusingmindmappingtechniqueinreadingcomprehension.Theparticipantsofthisstudywere31maleandfemalestudentsofbusinessmanagementatHakimanInstituteofHigherEducation,Bojnourd,Iran.Itwastheirfirstsemesterandtheyparticipatedinapre-Englishcourseasacompulsoryone.Aftereightsessionsoftreatment,when
5、theywerefamiliarwithmindmappingstrategyandapplieditforthereadingpassagesoftheirtextbook,theirattitudestowardusingmindmapsforreadingcomprehensionwasinvestigatedthroughLikert-typequestionnaireandoralinterview.Thefindingsrevealedthepositiveattitudesoftheparticipantstowardstheuseofmindmapsinreadi
6、ngclasses.KeyWords:Attitudes,MindMappingTechnique,ReadingComprehension,EFL1-IntroductionReading,asacriticalaspectofliteracy,isregardedasaninteractionbetweenthereaderandthetext(Alderson&Urquhart,1984).Amongthevarietyoftechniquesandskillsofteachingreading,fiveofthemareidentifiedasessentialbythe
7、NationalReadingPanel(2000).Theyare:(a)phonemicsawareness,(b)phonics,(c)comprehension,(d)fluency,and(e)vocabulary.Assuch,comprehensionplaysakeyroleasareadingskillthatEFLlearnersarerequiredtomasterinparticular.ReadingcomprehensioniscrucialinIra
