Teaching Productive Skills to the Students: a secondary Level Scenario

 
 
 
 

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Chapter 4 
 
Findings and Analysis 
4.1 
The Questionnaire 
 
To examine the theories and concepts discussed in the literature review, 
practical data have been collected through questionnaires. The questionnaires are 
attached as appendix-1 and appendix-2 at the end of this paper. To get a clear view, the 
questionnaire for teachers has been prepared in two aspects, qualitative and 
quantitative. To get qualitative data the questions were open ended and for quantitative 
they were close ended. 
The table given below is showing the teache
rs‟ and students‟ opinions on 
different views for teaching and learning English skills i.e. speaking and writing. The 
analysis follows the Likert scale. Each of the questions has the following points against 
each of the statements on the scale: 
 
 
Sl Number
Opinion 
 
 
Points 
1.
Strongly Agree
5
2.
Agree
4
3. 
Neutral
3
4. 
Disagree
2
5.
Strongly disagree
1
If the highest percentage of participants mark 5 or 4 then it is considered that 
majority of them have supported the statement. If the percentage is low, it means that 
only few have supported the statement. On the other hand, if highest percentage of the 
participants mark 2 or 1, it is considered that most of them have disagreed with the 
statement. If percentage is low, it means that only few havedisagreed with the 
statement. 

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4.2 
Data Analysis 
The data collected by using the instruments from the samples described above 
were hand tabulated and analyzed in terms of mean scores. The mean is the sum of all 
scores of all subjects in a group divided by the number of subjects, [X = ∑X/n] (Seliger 
and Shohamy, 1989: 215).The mean of each of the items, therefore, is the average 
score for each item and it is the summation of all the scores divided by the number of 
subjects. 
The mean provides information on the average performances or behavior of a 
group on given tasks, and helps the researcher obtain insight by condensing large 
amounts of data. The mean tells the researcher how the group as a whole performed 
and that does provide more significant information. Seliger and Shohamy (1989: 216).