Assessing Students’ Note Taking Problems During English Classroom: General Wako Gutu Secondary School
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2024-07
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Addis Ababa University
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This Study aimed at assessing students’ note taking problems during English classroom in General Wako Gutu secondary school particularly grade eleven students. In order to reach on the main problems of students note taking, the study examined: Students’ background note taking concept, students’ related problems in note taking, teachers’ related problems in note taking of students and content related problems in note taking of students. The finding of this study obtained by using three data gathering instruments such as: questionnaire, interview and observation. To achieve the purpose of the study the researcher used 30 items of a questionnaire which are categorized in four main sections such as: Students’ background note taking concept, Students’ perspective toward students related problems in note taking, Students’ perspective toward teachers related problems in note taking of students, and Students’ perspective toward content related problems of note taking of students. The researcher used (7) semi-structured interview questions in order to check the validity of data gathered through questionnaires. The samples of the study were 88 students which were selected through random sampling techniques and 5 English teachers who were teaching General Wako Gutu Secondary school. A descriptive statistical data analysis was used to analyze the collected data. The result of the study showed that the major problems that face students during note taking in teachers’ related problem was; fast speed of teachers’ speech (speech rate) (92.0%), in students’ related problems: lack of writing fast enough during lecture (88.6%) and lack of using special symbols and abbreviations (85.2%) and in content related problem density of information delivered by teacher (88%) are the problems that are identified by students’ and teachers’ sound.