Data Analysis
Theme 1: Language Skill
Regarding the skill improved most, the participants, by 42.6% expressed views suggesting
that their speaking skill was significantly improved. Reading and listening skills came next by
26.3% each, and writing by a small 5.3%.
Since the course was mainly presentation based, the participants spent a lot of time
conducting seminars and presentation projects. Therefore, both the presenters and the rest of
the class practiced speaking since they discussed cultural topics in the target language.
The chi-square result for this item suggests that the course achieved one of its goals to a great
extent. Nearly 70% of the students felt such an awareness. 78
Theme 3: Attitude towards the Target Culture
Education is sometimes compared with evolution; it is essentially an evolutionary process at
the end of which the individual transforms greatly. Such transformation, mostly intellectual,
could be observed in the change of the individuals’ attitudes towards life in general. Culture
classes could be considered as one means to transform the language learner. The fourth item
of the questionnaire investigated if the participants were able to observe such a transformation
in their attitudes towards British and American Societies.
Data AnalysisTheme 1: Language SkillRegarding the skill improved most, the participants, by 42.6% expressed views suggestingthat their speaking skill was significantly improved. Reading and listening skills came next by26.3% each, and writing by a small 5.3%.Since the course was mainly presentation based, the participants spent a lot of timeconducting seminars and presentation projects. Therefore, both the presenters and the rest ofthe class practiced speaking since they discussed cultural topics in the target language.The chi-square result for this item suggests that the course achieved one of its goals to a greatextent. Nearly 70% of the students felt such an awareness. 78Theme 3: Attitude towards the Target CultureEducation is sometimes compared with evolution; it is essentially an evolutionary process atthe end of which the individual transforms greatly. Such transformation, mostly intellectual,could be observed in the change of the individuals’ attitudes towards life in general. Cultureclasses could be considered as one means to transform the language learner. The fourth itemof the questionnaire investigated if the participants were able to observe such a transformationin their attitudes towards British and American Societies.
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