Students in Chinese higher vocational colleges and universities have struggled with English speaking fluency, stuckness, test anxiety, and communication anxiety in recent years. Due to the importance of the mind map has become very popular in English language instruction, this paper carries out a study to investigate the effectiveness of Bubble Maps Oriented Scaffolding Instruction teaching in public English language teaching in one of the Chinese higher vocational colleges. Twenty five second year students majoring in English major students are selected as experimental group. The study uses mixed methods by combining quantitative and qualitative methods through students' English speaking anxiety tests before and after the treatment by using Horwitz’s Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) and a semi-structured interview as a supplement to investigate its qualitative data. It turns out that the Bubble Maps Oriented Scaffolding Instruction teaching reduced students' English speaking anxiety.

Li Zhinan. Effective of Bubble Maps Oriented Scaffolding Instruction Teaching on the Reduction of English Speaking Anxiety on Chinese Undergraduates. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2024), Vol. 6, Issue 4: 8-13. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2024.060402.

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