This study examined notetaking by university-level English as a medium of instruction (EMI) students at different proficiency levels over a course of ten weeks. Ten Chinese graduate students participated in the study. The results showed that advanced students took higher quality notes and performed better academically than intermediate students. As for the use of language in taking notes, the intermediate students utilized more Chinese than English, while the reverse was true for the advanced students. With respect to generative and verbatim notetaking, the advanced students engaged more in the former and less in the latter compared to the intermediate students. Further, the advanced students and the intermediate students favored the pen and paper method and computerized notetaking, respectively. In contrast, the students all reviewed their notes after class. They also reported receiving no instruction on taking and reviewing/reorganizing notes. Based on these findings, implications are discussed.
Dae-Min Kang (Tue,) studied this question.