Global Journal of Human Social Science, G: Linguistics and Education, Volume 21 Issue 4

IV. R esults and D iscussions Table 1: Skills that are practiced most during school and college levels of education Skills Number Mean Std. Deviation Valid Missing Listening 100 0 3.25 0.91 Speaking 100 0 2.82 0.92 Reading 100 0 4.28 0.93 Writing 100 0 4.51 0.95 The results in Table-1 show that among the four language skills, writing skill has the highest mean (4.51) while speaking skill has the lowest mean (2.82). The results indicate that students practiced the writing skill most where they practiced the speaking skill least during their school and college levels of education. Table 2: Students’ frequency of facing difficulty in each of the four language skills Skills Number Mean Std. Deviation Valid Missing Listening 100 0 3.97 0.97 Speaking 100 0 4.40 0.91 Reading 100 0 3.19 0.94 Writing 100 0 4.09 0.93 The results in Table-2 show that among the four language skills, speaking skill has the highest mean (4.40) while reading skill has the lowest mean (3.19). The results reveal that students face the most difficulty in speaking where they face least difficulty in reading. Table 3: The duration of the English language course (i.e. 4/6 months) is fair enough. Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent Agree 11 11 11 11 Disagree 33 33 60.0 44 Strongly Disagree 56 56 56 100 Total 100 100 100 The results in Table-3 show most of the students were disagreed that the duration of the English language course is fair enough for the non-English department students. Table 4: The syllabus & course contents of the current English language course need to update Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent Agree 76 76 76 76 Disagree 20 20 20 96 Strongly Disagree 4 4 4 100 Total 100 100 100 Volume XXI Issue IV Version I 49 ( G ) Global Journal of Human Social Science - © 2021 Global Journals Year 2021 Exploring the Difficulties Encountered by the Non-English Department Students in Learning the English Language: A Study on the Tertiary Level of Education in Bangladesh Difficult=4, Moderately Difficult=3, Slightly Difficult=2Not Difficult=1 and Strongly Agree=5, Agree=4, Undecided=3, Disagree=2, Strongly Disagree=1.