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English writing in the context of globalization has spanned a wide range of personal needs, academic research and professional correspondence. Facing the contradiction between the rising demand for English writing and the low level of students' writing, this paper provides a systematic review of the methods, advantages and challenges of mind mapping in education. Based on PRISMA reporting standards, this paper analysed journal papers indexed in both Web of Science and Scope from 2021 to 2025, and finally 15 papers were included in the review. The study highlights the pedagogical value of mind mapping in teaching and learning, describes the challenges of implementing mind mapping in English writing education, and makes suggestions for future research. Although mind mapping is gradually being integrated into the classroom of English education and has been shown to have a positive impact on students' logic and vocabulary enhancement. However, there are still some problems, such as no significant creative improvement, etc. In the future, empirical studies should be conducted to explore the effects of mind mapping in English writing education of different school years and different ways to solve the negative effects.
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