Verbal Communication Practice by Preparatory Year Students from the Perspective of Teaching Staff at Imam Abdul Rahman Bin Faisal University.

Abstract

The study aimed to unveil the degree of practicing communicative oral skills by preparatory year students as perceived by of staff members at the deanship of Imam Abdul Rahman Bin Faisal University. Population of the study comprised (320) staff members representing all departments of the preparatory year. The sample comprised (136) male and female staff members which represents (43%) of the study population. To achieve objectives of the study, a questionnaire was designed in compliance with Likert five - point scale comprising of five-axis skills: speaking, listening, dialogue, persuasion and affecting, and finally negotiation. The most important findings of the study were high and low for all items of the questionnaire except four. Responses means ranged between (0302-4.22) out of (5). There were no differences with statistical significance at the function level (a = 0.05) for staff member responses attributed to social type variable, but there were differences with statistical significance in staff members responses regarding students' academic departments in favor of self-development with a mean of (3.94) at the function level (a = 0.05). There were no differences with statistical differences at the function level (a = 0.05) in members' responses which might be attributed to the variable of experience. There were differences with statistical significance in members' responses pertaining interaction between experience and department in favor of self-esteem section whose experience ranged between (6-10) years with an arithmetic mean (.7.718) at the function level (a = 0.05). There were also differences with statistical significance in the response of members to interaction between social category and experience and department in favor of males in the department of self-esteem development and in English language section for those whose experience ranged between (6-10) years with an arithmetic mean (.4.718). Calculated (f) degree for interaction was (7.834) which is statistically significant at the function level (a = 0.05) between sections of self-esteem development and English language. The study concluded with a set of recommendations.