| Relationships between Communicative Competence and Thinking Styles in Engineering Students |
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Soonhee Hwang, Kyung-Mi Yun |
| 공과대학생의 의사소통능력과 사고양식의 관계 |
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황순희, 윤경미 |
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| Abstract |
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This study aims to explore the relationships between ‘communicative competence’ and ‘thinking styles’ of engineering students in Korea, and to draw implications for the improvement of communication related courses and educational program. There has been much research on each of the two factors. However, according to the examination of both domestic and overseas researches concerning the relationships between communicative competence and thinking styles, little is known about them in terms of the engineering curriculum.
This study was conducted with 466 engineering students at P University, and especially their ‘communicative competence’ and ‘thinking styles’ have been evaluated. Our findings showed that firstly, there were significant gender differences in communicative competence of engineering students. Second, both male and female students got higher scores on legislative, hierarchic, global, external and liberal styles. Third, we found a high correlation between the two factors, communicative competence and thinking styles. Also there were significant correlations among variables of subcategories. Through these findings, it is recommended that a more appropriate model of communication related courses considering individual thinking styles should be developed. |
| Key Words:
engineering students, communicative competence, thinking styles, engineering education, non-technical skills |
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