TY - JOUR ID - 108259 TI - The Effect of Using Concept Mapping on Developing EFL Students' Writing Skills JO - Journal of Garmian University JA - JGU LA - ku SN - 23100087 AU - Ahmed, Ban Shihab AD - garmian university /college of language and human sciences / English department Y1 - 2020 PY - 2020 VL - 7 IS - 1 SP - 222 EP - 256 KW - Concept Mapping KW - EFL KW - Education DO - 10.24271/garmian.207114 N2 -        Concept maps are tools for organizing and representing knowledge. They include concepts, usually enclosed in circles or boxes of some type, and relationships between concepts or propositions, indicated by a connecting line between two concepts. Words on the line specify the relationship between the two concepts. Concept maps measured students’ understanding of the complexity of concepts, and interrelationships. Researchers found that concept mapping helped students improve the performance on high cognitive level questions, increase the accuracy and complexity of the students’ knowledge, and have a more positive attitude toward learning science.This study aims to show the impact of using concept maps as a brainstorming to help students organize their own thinking (individual or group) and idea development process  to improve their writing  skills. It also reviews the traditional techniques used in teaching writing to EFL and  identifies concept mapping  techniques along with as an application procedure to enhance the writing skill. To achieve the aim of the study of verifying the effectiveness of the concept mapping strategy on the performance of the selected sample which is randomly chosen from  the second year students of department of English at college of languages and human sciences / Garmian university,the adopted design which is "Posttest Only Control Group Design" is used. In this design ,only the experimental group receives the independent variable (concept mapping).After that ,the two groups(control and experimental) are tested and their scores are compared to ascertain the effect of the independent variable .The statistical analysis of the data was carried out by using SPSS. The results indicated that the learners, who have been taught through concept maps produced well-connected paragraph , enough supporting ideas, improved cohesion and coherence, content paragraph structure and enough length in writing. The results manifested that the hierarchical structure of the concept  mapping techniques used in the pre-writing process enhanced the EFL learners’writing.  UR - https://jgu.garmian.edu.krd/article_108259.html L1 - ER -