Academic Listening and Lecture Notetaking for L1/L2 Students: The Need to Investigate the Utility of the Axioms of Good Notetaking

Abstract

This review of the literature on lecture notetaking (l) delineates the avenues of past research concerning learning from L1 lectures as a function of L1 notetaking; (2) highlights the dearth of research concerning the processing of L2 lecture information by advanced foreign/second language learners; (3) outlines accepted axioms of good notetaking; and (4) suggests continued research to assess the utility of these axioms, and to explore further L2 lecture information processing.