The relationship of notetaking to listening comprehension in the English Placement Test

dc.contributor.author Xie, Qian
dc.contributor.department English
dc.date 2018-08-22T21:56:46.000
dc.date.accessioned 2020-06-30T07:50:12Z
dc.date.available 2020-06-30T07:50:12Z
dc.date.copyright Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 2002
dc.date.issued 2002-01-01
dc.description.abstract <p>The thesis is a validation study of the English Placement Test at Iowa State University, which explores the relationship of note taking to test performance. The researcher adopts both qualitative and quantitative approaches to analyzing the quality of lecture notes in relation to second language academic listening comprehension. Subjects are forty international college students who took the English Placement Test in January 2002 and their notes from the English Placement Test are assessed on three aspects that include structure, information units and note taking strategies. Correlation analysis and item analysis are conducted to investigate the relationship of the quality of lecture notes to test performance. The study shows that good quality notes are well-structured, containing more test information represented by encoding more main ideas, supporting ideas of the lecture in the notes. Among the measures of the quality of notes, main ideas, supporting ideas and structure are significantly associated with test performance. Although note taking strategies as a whole don't contribute significantly to test scores, the use of symbols is highly correlated to the arrangement of discourse structure, and encoding of major information units in the notes. The researcher argues that there is a positive relationship between good quality of notes and test performance.</p>
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dc.identifier archive/lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/16155/
dc.identifier.articleid 17154
dc.identifier.contextkey 7228478
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.31274/rtd-180813-6747
dc.identifier.s3bucket isulib-bepress-aws-west
dc.identifier.submissionpath rtd/16155
dc.identifier.uri https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/handle/20.500.12876/69863
dc.language.iso en
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dc.subject.disciplines Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education
dc.subject.disciplines English Language and Literature
dc.subject.disciplines First and Second Language Acquisition
dc.subject.disciplines Instructional Media Design
dc.subject.keywords English
dc.subject.keywords Teaching English as a second language/applied linguistics (Computer assisted language learning)
dc.subject.keywords Computer assisted language learning
dc.title The relationship of notetaking to listening comprehension in the English Placement Test
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dc.type.genre thesis
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thesis.degree.level thesis
thesis.degree.name Master of Arts
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