• Note-taking and summarizing: Although this activity could be used
for high beginner and pre-intermediate level students, it works best for students at the intermediate level or above. The note-taking and summarizing activity requires students to use YouTube to listen to lectures on various topics, take notes on the main points and important details,
verbally check and expand their notes with a partner, listen again to further expand their notes, and then write summaries from their notes. They can then look at a transcript of the clip and compare their summaries with those of their classmates and teachers. If the students’ summaries differ considerably from the teacher’s, then the teacher can point out why he or she chose the information included in the model summary. For example, by
pointing out specific discourse markers that indicate an important piece of information in a text, teachers can illustrate what students could look for in future encounters with similar texts. A good source of speeches on a variety of topics is TED Talks. TED Talks are generally limited to less than 20 minutes and most have a transcript available at the TED Talks homepage (http://www.ted.com).While note-taking and summarizing are difficult to master, both are essential academic writing skills and necessary for numerous standardized proficiency tests. YouTube provides opportunities to practice these skills with engaging materials. A normal assessment of notes can be labor-intensive for the teacher as it
involves checking which points have been included, understood, and formulated properly. A possible alternative to checking students’ notes would be to do as Flower dew suggests, and use tasks that require students to reintegrate knowledge from their notes, such as writing a short essay on the topic or giving a brief oral report that can instead be used for
evaluation (Flower dew, 1994).
• Note-taking and summarizing: Although this activity could be usedfor high beginner and pre-intermediate level students, it works best for students at the intermediate level or above. The note-taking and summarizing activity requires students to use YouTube to listen to lectures on various topics, take notes on the main points and important details, verbally check and expand their notes with a partner, listen again to further expand their notes, and then write summaries from their notes. They can then look at a transcript of the clip and compare their summaries with those of their classmates and teachers. If the students’ summaries differ considerably from the teacher’s, then the teacher can point out why he or she chose the information included in the model summary. For example, bypointing out specific discourse markers that indicate an important piece of information in a text, teachers can illustrate what students could look for in future encounters with similar texts. A good source of speeches on a variety of topics is TED Talks. TED Talks are generally limited to less than 20 minutes and most have a transcript available at the TED Talks homepage (http://www.ted.com).While note-taking and summarizing are difficult to master, both are essential academic writing skills and necessary for numerous standardized proficiency tests. YouTube provides opportunities to practice these skills with engaging materials. A normal assessment of notes can be labor-intensive for the teacher as it involves checking which points have been included, understood, and formulated properly. A possible alternative to checking students’ notes would be to do as Flower dew suggests, and use tasks that require students to reintegrate knowledge from their notes, such as writing a short essay on the topic or giving a brief oral report that can instead be used for evaluation (Flower dew, 1994).
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