As shown in Table II, students were weakest in reading (46% of the students scored 4.0) and strongest in speaking (14% of them scored 7.0). The highest band score of 7.5 (4% of them) and the lowest band score of 3 (6% of them) were found in writing.
Statistic analytical results of each skill revealed that students had problems in speaking skill particularly in answering questions on expressing opinions and those on explanation. Students should practice expressing opinions and discussions in the classroom. For the listening skill, students had problems in gap-filling on summaries and selecting the most appropriate words in the passage. They should have the opportunity to listen to formal and informal conversations as well as listen to a variety of listening text types. Regarding the reading skill, students had difficulties in reading for main ideas, inference and reading for details, respectively. Students should read more than two pages of textbooks and journals as well as academic passages. Concerning the writing skill, they had obstacles in writing tables, graphs, and diagrams more than expository essays. They should be taught more in describing tables so that they can write this text type better.
Results from the questionnaires derived from 50 fourth year undergraduate students majoring in English for International Communication are given in Table III.