Enhancing EFL Learners’ Listening Comprehension Through Note- Taking Strategy:

Abstract

Note- taking is considered to be one of the important strategies that help EFL learners to accomplish their academic goals especially during the listening tasks. However, a very little attention has been given to its importance as well as its instruction. Therefore, the main concern of the present study is to investigate the existence of a positive relationship between note-taking strategy (NTS) and listening comprehension skill(LCS). The current research has been conducted through a quantitative descriptive-analytic method in which questionnaires for teachers and learners have been administered in order to find out the different problems learners face while listening and how note-taking can be an appropriate solution. The research was conducted with a sample of 130 students from a population of 200 and 15 FL teachers from the English department of 8 Mai 1945 University (Guelma); they have been chosen randomly. The findings indicate that indeed learners encounter many difficulties while listening including speech rate, accent and unfamiliar vocabulary of the target language. From these results, it is concluded that there is a positive link between note-taking and listening comprehension skills only when teachers and learners are aware about the usefulness of this strategy in improving this demanded skill; listening. Eventually, it is recommended that teachers should encourage their students to rely on various types of note-taking so that their ability of recording information and taking accurate notes while listening could improve.