EFL Students’ Note Taking Strategies in Listening Tasks.

Abstract

The aims of this study are to find out the strategies of note taking first year students of English at Mila niversity Centre use to answer the listening tasks and how these strategies help students enhance their listening skills. The study is qualitative; two methods of data collection were used; document analysis and interviewing. Forty first year students participated in the study. Their answers to the listening activities were analyzed to know the types of strategies they use to answer the listening tasks. An interview was conducted with these participants to know their opinions about how note taking strategies helped them do the listening tasks. The findings of research show that the students used different note taking strategies in completing the tasks. These strategies are the sentence strategy, mind mapping, Cornell, and outlining. The participants also believed that note taking strategies helped them understand the listening material