Statement

t

p (2-tailed)

Results

Relevance of Communicative Skills:

Communicative Skills is important to students.

−0.904

0.368

ns

Communicative Skills is relevant to university students’ education.

−1.976

0.050

ns

Communicative Skills enables students to correct their grammatical errors.

−0.724

0.470

ns

Communicative Skills assists students to write very good essays.

0.552

0.582

ns

Communicative Skills equips students with a large vocabulary.

−1.021

0.309

ns

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

1.184

0.237

ns

Communicative Skills is really meeting students’ communicative needs.

1.807

0.073

ns

Course Components:

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

0.122

0.903

ns

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

−2.100

0.017

ss

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

0.297

0.767

ns

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

0.432

0.666

ns

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

0.677

0.500

ns

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

1.439

0.152

ns

Reading is the most important communicative skills

−1.191

0.236

ns

Writing is the most important communicative skills.

−1.841

0.068

ns

Speaking is the most important communicative skills.

−0.067

0.946

ns

Listening is the most important communicative skills.

−1.181

0.239

ns

Communicative Skills and Disciplinary Variation:

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

−0.224

0.823

ns

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

0.336

0.738

ns

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

−0.208

0.835

ns

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

0.427

0.670

ns

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

−0.527

0.599

ns

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

−0.695

0.488

ns

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

0.622

0.532

ns

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

0.374

0.709

ns