An Investigation of Note -Taking Strategies and their Effecton Students’ Performance in Exams:The Case of Third Year License LMD Students of English at Jijel University

Abstract

The present research work is intended to investigate note-taking strategies used by third year License LMD English language students at Mohammed Seddik Ben Yahia University. It also aims to explore the effect of note-taking strategies on students’ performance in exams. To reach the above stated aims, it is hypothesized that third year English language students use three types of strategies (abbreviations, symbols and highlighting) to take their notes and that these strategies do not help them to improve their performance in exams. To test the validity of these hypotheses, a research study was carried out a study with (44) third year license LMD English students out of (308) as a sample at Mohammed Seddik Ben Yahia University during the academic year 2014-2015