ENGLISH LANGUAGE COMPETENCE OF INDIAN STUDENTS

The process of globalization and the flow of free trade across the physical
boundaries have opened up enormous opportunities for the educated youth,
especially in the technical streams to work in any part of the world and work in large
multinational corporations with handsome pay packages. However, the essential
pre-requisite to avail such opportunities is to have extremely good communication
skills, especially in English, coupled with technical skill. This is where the role of
English teacher attains paramount importance. Communicative language teaching
is the latest and proven approach to improve the communicative competence of
students. An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the importance of
English language proficiency, and the effectiveness of communicative approach in
fulfilling the pedagogic needs of English language teaching.