The Effectiveness of the E-mind Mapping Strategy for Sixth-Grade Students’ Achievement Level in Learning Arabic Vocabulary in Kuwait

• Authors: Nouri Y. Alwattar , Eisa M. Al-Balhan

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of the presented study was to identify the effect of using the e-mind maps strategy at the academic achievement level in learning Arabic vocabulary skills among six-grade primary male students in Iben Al-Atheer School for Intermediate Education in Kuwait in the 2017/2018 school year. The sample of the study consisted of 60 male students, equally divided into two groups, experimental and control ones. The result of the study indicated that there were statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental group and the control one in the post achievement level test scale in favor of the experimental group. The effect size of using mind maps was high. There were statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental and control group scores in the post achievement test of the Arabic vocabulary learning in favor of the experimental group. The study concludes with recommendations for future mind-mapping in other contexts.

Keywords

EN

mind mapping; strategy; vocabulary; sixth grade; Kuwait; achievement

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 53
• Pages: 115-125

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

Nouri Y. Alwattar

• Kuwait University

author

Eisa M. Al-Balhan

• Kuwait University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.2018.53.3.10

Biblioteka Nauki

1969340