Communicative Competence and Its Ambition among Preparatory Stage Students

Abstract

The present study aimed to identify the level of communicative competence and ambition among preparatory stage students, as well as to examine the nature of the relationship between these two variables. It also sought to investigate dRelationship with the Level of

ifferences in their levels according to the variables of gender, academic specialization, and grade level. The researcher adopted the descriptive correlational approach due to its suitability for the nature and objectives of the study.

     The study sample consisted of (465) male and female preparatory stage students from both scientific and literary specializations in Erbil Governorate during the academic year (2025–2026). Two instruments were used: the first was the Communicative Competence Scale developed by Al-Khuza‘i (2017), which originally consisted of 47 items, and the second was the Ambition Level Scale developed by Mu‘awad and Abdel-Azim (2005), consisting of (36) items.

      The validity of the communicative competence scale was verified through face validity, extreme group comparison validity, and item–total correlation validity. After analyzing the responses of the statistical analysis sample, six items were removed, leaving a total of 41 items. The validity of the ambition level scale items was verified using face validity, with all items receiving 100% agreement from the panel of experts. The reliability of both scales was established using the test–retest method and Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, and the results indicated acceptable reliability values. For data analysis, several statistical methods were employed, including the one-sample t-test, the independent samples t-test, and Pearson’s correlation coefficient.