Statements

SA

A

D

SD

M^* S.D

Total

No.

%

No.

%

No.

%

No.

%

Relevance of Communicative Skills:

Communicative Skills is important to students.

78

69.6

31

27.7

2

1.8

1

0.9

3.66

0.562

112

Communicative Skills is relevant to university students’ education.

78

69.6

33

29.5

0

0.0

1

0.9

3.68

0.524

112

Communicative Skills enables students to correct their grammatical errors.

78

69.6

31

27.7

2

1.8

1

0.9

3.66

0.562

112

Communicative Skills assists students to write very good essays.

67

60.4

38

34.2

5

4.5

1

0.9

3.54

0.629

111

Communicative Skills equips students with a large vocabulary.

41

36.6

58

51.8

11

9.8

2

1.8

3.23

0.697

112

Communicative Skills sharpens students’ speaking, writing, reading and listening skills.

60

53.6

45

40.2

6

5.4

1

0.9

3.46

0.643

112

Communicative Skills is really meeting students’ communicative needs.

33

29.7

58

52.3

15

13.5

5

4.5

3.07

0.783

111

Course components:

Basic Sentence Pattern (SVO) is the most useful component of the Communicative Skills programme.

20

17.9

51

45.5

29

25.9

12

10.7

2.71

0.889

112

Skimming, Scanning and Outlining are the most useful components of the Communicative Skills programme.

20

17.9

54

48.2

33

29.5

5

4.5

2.79

0.784

112

Dangling Modification, Ambiguity and Concord (Subject-Verb Agreement) are the most useful components of the Communicative Skills programme.

55

49.5

41

36.9

12

10.8

3

2.7

3.33

0.778

111

Paragraph Development and Easy Writing are the most useful components of the Communicative Skills programme.

41

36.9

55

49.5

13

11.7

2

1.8

3.22

0.719

111

The primary objective of Communicative Skills should be to correct students’ grammatical errors.

50

45.9

43

39.4

11

10.1

5

4.6

3.27

0.824

109

The primary objective of Communicative Skills should be to develop students’ speaking abilities.

50

46.3

45

41.7

11

10.2

2

1.8

3.32

0.734

108

Reading is the most important communicative skills

30

29.4

39

38.2

27

26.5

6

5.9

2.91

0.891

102

Writing is the most important communicative skills.

30

27.3

55

50.0

26

18.2

5

4.5

3.00

0.801

110

Speaking is the most important communicative skills.

41

37.6

49

45.0

14

12.8

5

4.6

3.16

0.818

109

Listening is the most important communicative skills.

15

13.5

55

49.5

36

32.4

5

4.5

2.72

0.753

111

Communicative Skills and Disciplinary Variation:

The teaching of Communicative Skills should focus on students’ programmes of study.

31

27.9

38

34.2

27

24.3

15

13.5

2.77

0.411

111

The teaching of Communicative Skills based on specific discipline of students enables students to communicate effectively in their specific disciplines.

43

38.4

40

35.7

21

18.8

8

7.1

3.05

0.617

112

The teaching of Communicative Skills based on specific disciplines of student will make teaching and learning more efficient and productive.

45

40.2

47

42.0

15

13.4

5

4.5

3.18

0.830

112

Teaching Communicative Skills according to students’ programme of study should emphasise grammatical correctness.

43

39.8

45

41.7

16

14.8

4

3.7

3.18

0.818

108

Teaching Communicative Skills according to students’ programme of study should emphasise reading skills.

29

26.4

61

55.5

14

12.7

6

5.5

3.03

0.784

110

Teaching Communicative Skills according to students’ programme of study should emphasise writing skills.

32

29.9

57

53.3

9

8.4

9

8.4

3.05

0.851

107

Outlining should be stamped out of the current Communicative Skills programme.

26

23.2

19

17.0

28

25.0

39

34.8

2.29

0.423

112

Skimming and Scanning should be stamped out of the current Communicative Skills programme.

25

22.3

19

17.0

29

25.9

39

34.8

2.27

0.634

112