Collaborative

In technical institutions the task of grooming the students for employment is often laid at the door step of language classes. A known fact is that mere language competence does not make a student employable. Language competence is certainly a huge chunk but attitudinal and behavioral aspects play a major role in governing the type of communicative competence in the students that the industry needs. The globally growing demand for better communication both written and oral calls for innovative teaching methodologies with greater participation of the learners. This is primarily the reason why this paper advocates Collaborative Learning as a method to examine its effectiveness in not only improving communicative competence but also in enhancing the life skills among the learners. The paper discusses how the challenge of a heterogeneous group coupled with large sized class room can be dealt with using the techniques of one of the approaches of Collaborative learning. (152) Keywords