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The main purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of mind-mapping strategies on senior primary students, and determine how readily the strategies were accepted and their effectiveness in teaching literacy. In this experiment, a total of 59 fifth-graders were divided into an experimental group and a control group. The students of both groups were given courses for forty minutes at a time, two times a week, for four weeks in total. There were 29 students in the experimental group, which were given the courses by the mind-mapping literacy method, and 30 students in the control group, taught the courses by traditional literacy method. An independent t-test was used in this study to check if the pre-test data was homogeneous between the experimental group and the control group. Also, a paired t-test was used to check if there were any obvious differences before and after the experiment. Furthermore, an independent t-test was used as a post-test to determine if there were any differences between the experimental group and the control group. How well the mind-mapping literacy method was accepted by the students, was based on Likert's five-point scale for data collection. The results of the experiment with a level of significance of 0.05 showed that implementation of mind-mapping literacy method for four weeks had a significant effect on the literacy of the senior primary students. Furthermore, senior primary students demonstrated a positive attitude towards the mind-mapping literacy method and displayed the most significant improvement in the sound test. Conversely, there were no significant differences between the post-test scores of the experimental group and the control group. However, the average score of the experimental group was higher than the control group in the post-test, which was the opposite of the results of the pre-test.
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