THE EFFECT OF MIND MAPPING ON FILM DISCUSSION TO DEVELOP EFL STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION

This study investigated the effect of mind mapping strategy on English as foreign language (EFL) students’ film discussion developing their listening comprehension. Thus a teacher-made language proficiency test was administered to the pre-intermediate students majoring in English translation at Abadan Azad University, Iran; and 60 students were selected for the next phase of the experiment. Then they were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. Both groups took a pre-test of film discussion on the videos of Top Notch 1 A and B. The experimental group received mind mapping instruction on watching the videos and film discussion while the control group was allowed to discuss the film in class discussion without mind mapping strategy. The course lasted for 10 sessions and finally they sat for the post-test. Data were analyzed through Independent Samples t-test. The results demonstrated that there was a significant difference between the groups. In other words, the students who used mind mapping strategy in film discussion activities outperformed the control group in terms of developing their listening comprehension.