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