Résumé:
he purpose of the current study is to investigate how well English Foreign Language
(EFL) learners can retrieve knowledge using the Cornell note taking method. A quasiexperimental study was undertaken on a sample of 20 third-year EFL students at
Mohamed El-Bachir Ibrahimi University. A total of ten individuals from each group were
divided into the experimental and control groups. The control group was instructed to
continue taking notes using their usual method, whereas the experimental group was
instructed to use the Cornell method during their Literary Text Study lectures. They were
thus maintained without manipulation. To ascertain the students’ level of understanding of
note taking and the Cornell system, a pre- and post-closed- ended questionnaire were
used, along with three achievement tests to evaluatetheir retrieval of information, during
the manipulation and after it. The acquired data were statistically analyzed with the
statistical package for social sciences (SPSS). Finally, the research findings revealed that
employing the Cornell note-taking method improved students’ recall of information.
