Teachers And Students Attitudes Towards The Role Of Note-taking In Enhancing Students Test Performance

Résumé: This study aimed at investigating the role of note-taking strategy on improving student's test performance from English Departement Major's percpectives at Larbi ben Mhidi University. We hypothesized that if learners take notes effectively, their test performance will be enhanced. The main objectives of this work are investigating the relationship between the two variables and raising the learners' awareness about the importance of taking notes during lectures. In addition to providing them with the effective note-taking methods that help them. It further attempts to give implication for EFL teachers to teach and use this strategy while lecturing. The tools used to reach those objectives are questionnaires administred to third year EFL learners and teachers at the Department of English at Oum el Bouaghi University, in order to gather the necessary data about the topic of research. The present work is composed of two chapters; the first is a theoritical, it represents an overview of note-taking skill and testing. Furthermore, the second part is for the analysis of the data and, the results obtained which prove the hypothesis. Which shows that note-taking during lectures, promotes the deep concentration, facilitates memorising and organizing the lecture content. Hence, learners will easily remember the information and their performance in tests will be improved.

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