THE COMMUNICATION NEEDS OF DRIVING INSTRUCTORS IN CENTRAL VIETNAM

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a study on the communication needs of driving instructors in Central Vietnam with consideration taken into the correlation with their literacy levels, their teaching seniority and their ages. The findings show that 13% of the driving instructors are in need of communication at a high level, 32% of them at an upper-medium level, 21.7% at the medium level, 18% at a lower medium level and 15.3% at a low level. There is no relation between their communication needs, their literacy levels and their teaching seniority. However, there is a relation between their communication needs and their ages. Specifically, the rate of the high communication level increases from 9.1% with the age of under 30 to 17.5% with 50-60 years of age; for the opposite age groups, the rate of the low communication level tends to decrease.