Developing Language Skills and Communicative Competence in Undergraduate Students

Language skills, viz. listening, speaking, reading and writing are very crucial in any language learning. They are the basic skills of any language. The students of under graduate courses shall need to master these skills during their studies in the institutions and universities, they should be possessing these skills inside, and outside of their classroom in circumstances where they have to employ their language skills in actions in real life situation may be formal or informal for that matter. The present paper aims at examining level of language skills among the undergraduate students and how that can enhance communicative competence. It is also an attempt to find out the related studies and how are they conducted in the classrooms. This will help reserchers for further studies in this field. Keywords: language skills, under graduate students, communicative competence, communicative approach