Using Integrated Skills Model to Improve Beninese ESP Advanced Learners’ Communicative Performance in Technical Schools: Case Study of Some Technical Schools in Benin Republic.

Abstract

This paper aims at examining the models of skills integration to foster English for specific purpose advanced learners’ communicative performance. To achieve this objective, the study exposes the benefits of the models of skills integration implementation on students’ communicative competence during classroom activities. A Mixed method has been used. It consists of two stages. Firstly, the researcher collects both quantitative and qualitative data from ten (10) EFL teachers teaching ESP and one hundred (100) learners in industrial sector form four (4) technical schools through questionnaires, classroom observations and interviews. The second stage deals with the experimental process. It has involved forty (40) ESP Learners of the industrial section of Lycée Technique professional of Porto Novo. The students have been randomly split into two groups of twenty (20): an experimental group which has received the treatment (integrated skill teaching) and a control group which has received no treatment. Both groups have been submitted to a pre-test and a post-test after 6 months. Learners’ overall communicative performance scores have been recorded for statistical test using SPSS 25. The results reveal that skill integration has drastically improved ESP learners’ communicative performance.