Tips for note taking and listening:

-Speak clearly and at a reasonable pace.
-Avoid inaccessible vocabulary, culture specific words, or slang.
-Make good non-verbal communication strategies (ie: gestures, eye contact)
- Encourage students to copy note from other peers and to discuss those notes with them.
- Write key-terms on the board and ask comprehension check questions.
- Use visual aids to help advance students comprehension.
- Use legible handwriting (No scribbly or cursive!)
- If you are using PowerPoint slides, give the slides to students as a handout; when a professor is lecturing from PowerPoint, the information actually goes much more quickly than in the chalk-n-talk mode, and international students may have a difficult time processing information and getting it down in notes.
- Encourage students to ask questions and seek to converse with them informally as often as possible to help them learn the dialect!