Statements | SA | A | D | SD | M* S.D | Total | ||||||||
No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | |||||||
Relevance of Communicative Skills: | ||||||||||||||
Communicative Skills is important to students. | 12 | 60.0 | 8 | 40.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3.60 | 0.503 | 20 | |||
Communicative Skills is relevant to university students’ education. | 10 | 50.0 | 10 | 50.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3.50 | 0.513 | 20 | |||
Communicative Skills enables students to correct their grammatical errors. | 5 | 25.0 | 7 | 35.0 | 8 | 40.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.85 | 0.813 | 20 | |||
Communicative Skills assists students to write very good essays. | 6 | 30.0 | 12 | 60.0 | 2 | 10.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3.20 | 0.616 | 20 | |||
Communicative Skills equips students with a large vocabulary. | 3 | 15.8 | 3 | 15.8 | 8 | 42.1 | 5 | 26.3 | 2.21 | 0.431 | 19 | |||
Communicative Skills sharpens students’ speaking, writing, reading and listening skills. | 5 | 27.8 | 7 | 38.9 | 6 | 33.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.94 | 0.802 | 18 | |||
Communicative Skills is really meeting students’ communicative needs. | 0 | 0.0 | 6 | 30.0 | 14 | 70.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.30 | 0.470 | 20 | |||
Course Components: | ||||||||||||||
Basic Sentence Pattern (SVO) is the most useful component of the Communicative Skills programme. | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 11.1 | 15 | 83.3 | 1 | 5.6 | 2.06 | 0.416 | 18 | |||
Skimming, Scanning and Outlining are the most useful components of the Communicative Skills programme. | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 27.8 | 13 | 72.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.28 | 0.461 | 18 | |||
Dangling Modification, Ambiguity and Concord (Subject-Verb Agreement) are the most useful components of the Communicative Skills programme. | 2 | 11.1 | 10 | 55.6 | 6 | 33.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.78 | 0.647 | 18 | |||
Paragraph Development and Easy Writing are the most useful components of the Communicative Skills programme. | 4 | 20.0 | 8 | 40.0 | 8 | 40.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.80 | 0.768 | 20 | |||
The primary objective of Communicative Skills should be to correct students’ grammatical errors. | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 10.0 | 15 | 75.0 | 3 | 15.0 | 1.95 | 0.510 | 20 | |||
The primary objective of Communicative Skills should be to develop students’ speaking abilities. | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 10.0 | 16 | 80.0 | 2 | 10.0 | 2.00 | 0.459 | 20 | |||
Reading is the most important communicative skills | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 25.0 | 15 | 75.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.25 | 0.444 | 20 | |||
Writing is the most important communicative skills. | 2 | 11.2 | 8 | 44.4 | 8 | 44.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.67 | 0.686 | 18 | |||
Speaking is the most important communicative skills. | 2 | 11.2 | 2 | 11.2 | 14 | 77.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.33 | 0.686 | 18 | |||
Listening is the most important communicative skills. | 3 | 15.0 | 1 | 5.0 | 11 | 55.0 | 5 | 25.0 | 2.10 | 0.960 | 20 | |||
Communicative Skills and Disciplinary Variation: | ||||||||||||||
The teaching of Communicative Skills should focus on students’ programmes of study. | 9 | 45.0 | 5 | 25.0 | 6 | 30.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 3.15 | 0.875 | 20 | |||
The teaching of Communicative Skills based on specific discipline of students enables students to communicate effectively in their specific disciplines. | 4 | 20.0 | 7 | 35.0 | 9 | 45.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.75 | 0.786 | 20 | |||
The teaching of Communicative Skills based on specific disciplines of student will make teaching and learning more efficient and productive. | 4 | 22.2 | 5 | 27.8 | 9 | 50.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.72 | 0.826 | 18 | |||
Teaching Communicative Skills according to students’ programme of study should emphasise grammatical correctness. | 2 | 11.1 | 4 | 22.2 | 12 | 66.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.44 | 0.705 | 18 | |||
Teaching Communicative Skills according to students’ programme of study should emphasise reading skills. | 1 | 5.6 | 4 | 22.2 | 13 | 72.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.33 | 0.594 | 18 | |||
Teaching Communicative Skills according to students’ programme of study should emphasise writing skills. | 2 | 11.1 | 5 | 27.8 | 11 | 61.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 2.50 | 0.707 | 18 | |||
Outlining should be stamped out of the current Communicative Skills programme. | 1 | 5.0 | 6 | 30.0 | 12 | 60.0 | 1 | 5.0 | 2.35 | 0.671 | 20 | |||
7502423Skimming and Scanning should be stamped out of the current Communicative Skills programme. | 0 | 0.0 | 8 | 40.0 | 10 | 50.0 | 2 | 10.0 | 2.30 | 0.657 | 20 | |||