Language is a divine gift serving as a vehicle for expressing one's thought and feelings. It is an effective tool of the human communication system. It is the basis for social, cultural, aesthetical, spiritual and economic development and growth of every human being. A person is guesstimated by the way he uses the language, either in a florid or stumpy style. Every organization demands effective and excellent professionals for the escalation and expansion of its existence. There is bumper harvest, but efficient servants are insufficient as far as job opportunities in educational institutions are concerned. The most important reason is their lack of communication skills in English though they have immense knowledge in their own discipline. The prime factor is that the students are not given adequate training in mastering the language skills. The present study is conducted on the sample of 325 prospective teachers from the population of 3500 student-teachers of various new-born colleges of education in Kanyakumari District at the southern part of Tamil Nadu. A self-made tool was developed by the authors to scale the prospective teachers' level of the language skills namely listening, speaking, reading and writing. The study implies that gender, locality and parents' education are not the major determining factors affecting the communication skill of the prospective teachers. But there is significant difference in the language skills with regard to the teacher-educators' use of language and other teaching techniques either at the school, graduate, or B.Ed level.