In a recent EEF podcast on “high-quality talk”, Professor Neil Mercer, emeritus professor of education at the University of Cambridge, and director of the Oracy@Cambridge study centre, spoke powerfully about the need for teachers to teach oracy skills like we teach skills in maths, reading ...
Recent research from the University of Bedfordshire and the English-Speaking Union revealed thatlearning to debate can improve children’sSATsresultsby between six and 19 per cent in all subjects. Learning to debate can help children to develop their research skills.‘Research can be an important ...