Strategies to Enhance Academic Listening Skills and Note-Taking in College
Discover effective strategies to improve your academic listening skills and note-taking ability in college. Learn how to stay focused, engage with lectures, and capture essential information for academic success.
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LEARNING IN CLASS Chapter 3
Topic: Learning in Class Essential Question: What strategies can improve your academic listening skills?
Your job as a student College is harder expectations are more demanding High school quality differs in rigor so you may not be prepared as well The responsibility for learning is yours Your live is complicated and busy There is much to take you away from learning
Content difficultyHow simple or complex is the material? Quality of presentation How well is the material presented? Intuitive-formal continuum How intuitive (natural and familiar) or formal (difficult and unfamiliar) is the material
How to learn in class Listening and note taking Notetaking skills are positively related to academic achievement Academic listening is a special type of listening; the ability to capture and understand complicated information that is presented orally. You must be able to tune out distractions and tune in the lecture.
Basic strategies for academic listening Intend remind yourself of your goals Be ready be physically and mentally ready for class Record find a way to get the information; written, typed or recorded Refocus find a way to get your attention back when you feel yourself begin to be distracted Connect find a way to link the information to what you know or believe
Lecture Classes usually have between 25-500 students; Here are some good examples of stles of notes for lecture classes:
Problem Solving Classes use different types of notes
Distance Classes Students in distance education classes must be: Self motivated Self-regulated Comfortable communicating through writing Committed to working in isolation Readily available to access the required technology
