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 |