Skill Acquisition through Project Based Learning the Collaborative Way

Abstract

Teaching and learning is a multifaceted process involving different methods and the pedagogy involved. Different approaches, methods and techniques have evolved to enable acquisition of language but nothing unparalleled the Communicative Language Teaching. Its goal is to promote the development of real-life language skills by engaging the learner in contextualized, meaningful, and communicative-oriented learning tasks. Collaborative learning, one of the principles of Communicative Language Teaching, has been identified as a strong facilitator of group learning that enables mastery of content, develop critical thinking and problem solving skills, and enriches interpersonal skills which otherwise styles learners’ eloquence in speaking. This research paper discusses how the students have acquired these skills by working on a task i.e. submission of project in a team through collaborative learning. Through this approach the students were made to interact in the target language thus making them become dynamic conversational members who learnt to cooperate and exchange ideas, fine tune them, resolve conflicts, learn to organise ideas, plan and accomplish the project by acquiring the requisite skills.