This study explored the effects of note-taking training on Korean college students’ notes during academic English listening tests. A total of 61 college students were randomly assigned to two different groups: Group A that later received training in note-taking strategy and Group B that did not. Group A received note-taking strategy training on three separate times, totaling 60 minutes (30 minutes, 15 minutes, and 15 minutes) that spread out over two months. The two groups took listening tests before and after Group A was trained. The results showed the positive effects of the notetaking training in relation with the groups’ note-taking behaviors. After training, the trained group used more and frequent notes whereas the untrained group’s number of notes decreased. Individual students who drastically increased the number of notes after training (in Test II) showed more systemic framework of notes for Test II than before training (in Test I). The present study is meaningful in that it utilized the different analyzing methods on the quality of notes compared with previous studies.

This study was to investigate the impact of cognitive style and self-regulated learning strategy such as note-taking methods on learners ' academic performance. Statistical analysis results showed that both cognitive style and note-taking methods did not have a significant effect on an immediate test. However, there was a significant main effect of cognitive style on a delayed test. Students who took notes in a matrix scored higher on the delayed test than did students who took notes free form. There were no interaction effects between note-taking format and cognitive style in both post-test and delayed test.