TEACHERS’ BELIEFS AND PRACTICES OF SCAFFOLDING STUDENTS’ PARAGRAPH WRITING THROUGH MIND-MAPPING AT PRE-WRITING STAGE

Scaffolding is considered as a kind of support assisting students in completing language learning tasks. Research into mind-mapping, type graphic organizer, has indicated its role scaffolding strategy teaching English. This paper reports descriptive study examining teachers’ beliefs and practices using mind-mapping to scaffold students’ paragraph writing at pre-writing stage. The data discussed this include questionnaires observations with eighty-four teachers English foreign language. findings the research reveal positive about their writing. Pedagogical implications for are presented.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/soc/0087/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>