Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate how international students learn their note-taking techniques. Although Learners are expected to take notes efficiently, most of international students face a difficulty in writing it down. In this study, educational practices which learners take notes by watching lecture videos are conducted. It isessential to acquire note-taking techniques for university students, hence I decided to do this educational practices.It is difficult for international students to take notes of a lecture. They are required to get the point of the contents,write it down speedy. It is essential to have an ability which takes notes properly. Through 15-week Japanese instructions, the participants in the study took notes of the lecture, had a question-and-answer session and commented about notes each other.Summary of research processes are as follows;1. Lecturer films a trial lesson.2. Students take notes on a lecture.3. After watching a trial lesson, lecturer and students have Q and A sessions.4. Lecturer comments on the quality of students' notes.Results show that learners could enhance their note-taking strategy, get used to take lectures.The author suggest that learners are expected to do basic practices from the beginning, increase their vocabulary including technical term, practice to take various lectures. Furthermore, we are expected to analyze lecture's discourse.
