Name:Shuya Jia
School & Local Authority:Queen Ann High School&Fife
Focusing and Planning Your Enquiry
Research question : What do I want to explore?A studythe Application of Mind Map to Teaching Mandarin Vocabularies to Scottish Primary School Pupils
Rationale for Enquiry Focus
A mind map is hierarchical and shows relationships among pieces of the whole.It is often created around a single concept, drawn as an image in the center of a blank page, to which associated representations of ideas such as images, words and parts of words are added. During the past year of teaching mandarin in Scottish primary school pupils, Ifind it’s agood and easy way to help pupils remembering mandarin vocabularies in a short and limited time using the mind map. And it helps pupils to find and learn more types of vocabularies with just one topic.
Success Criteria for me ….if the enquiry is as productive as I hope it might be: what will I know/understand/ have seen/heard/be able to evidencedifferently?
1. I will try to know the accurate definition of mind map.
2.I will have seen and heard by the evidence of some previous research and some reports.
3.I will have evidence for the photos (some pupils’ work in class and homework after school), questionnaire and observation.
Success Criteria for children/staff ….if the enquiry is as productive as I hope it might be:
Planning Data Gathering + Analysis What I plan to collect FITNESS for PURPOSE
Baseline
I will start with pupils’ writings, paintings and posters of using mind map to remember mandarin vocabularies. / To gather my data I intend to:
My evidence will be collected by photos of pupils’ work in class and homework after school and a piece of questionnaire to the class teacher and pupils. / Any limitations to my methods? / Why I think this particular data collection method is the mosteffective:
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