Research on the Application of Mind Mapping in Promoting English Learning Efficiency of High School Art and Sports Specialty Students

Since the new curriculum reform, the requirements and difficulties of high school English learning have generally increased, which has brought severe challenges to teachers and students’ teaching and learning, especially for high school art and sports students. This study mainly explores how to apply mind mapping to senior high school art and sports students’ English learning, focusing on word learning, reading comprehension and writing. The purpose of this study is to study whether the English learning mode of senior high school art and sports students assisted by mind mapping tools can stimulate students’ interest in learning English and improve students’ learning ability, so as to explore a set of effective modes and methods. The research adopts the methods of literature research, questionnaire survey, classroom observation, interview and experimental research. Taking two classes of art and sports specialty students in grade one of School B in city a of Gansu Province as the research object, the experimental group and the control group are set up respectively to carry out a course for a semester. The results show that mind mapping has greatly improved the level of emotional attitudes and values such as interest and attitude in English learning of art and sports students in senior high school, promoted the English vocabulary learning and reading comprehension ability of art and sports students, and also played a very positive role in Teachers’ professional growth and students’ autonomous learning.