From Text to Mind Map: Using Coggle to Improve Engineering Students' Critical Reading and Thinking Abilities in ESP Courses: A Case Study of Casablanca MED V & ENSAM Engineering Students
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.34874/PRSM.iajesp-vol7iss1.41232Keywords:
Mind mapping, Summarizing, Critical reading and thinking, ESP, EngineeringAbstract
This study explores the impact of summarizing texts via Coggle on the critical reading and thinking abilities of engineering students. A total of 120 engineering students from two renowned colleges in Morocco participated in this study. Half of the students, namely the MED V 1st Year Preparatory Classes students, received a training on how to create mind maps, and were asked to summarize a text entitled “Closing the Digital Divide in 2019” via the Coggle Website; while the other half, namely the ENSAM-Casa 1st Year Preparatory Classes students, did not receive any training and were asked to summarize the same text in the traditional way i.e., writing a paragraph. Both groups were given a 2-hour post-test on the same text where they had to (a) answer multiple-choice questions, (b) comment on a key statement from the text, and (c) criticize the author’s thesis. The results show that the students who received the training on Coggle outperformed the control group on the post-test, indicating that using Coggle mind maps to summarize texts can improve engineering students' critical reading and thinking abilities.References
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