Deputy Head of Primary, Year 2 Lead The Importance of Oracy 口才的重要性 Here at Britannica we value and understand the importance of ‘Oracy’ within the classroom. Oracy involves the articulation of ideas, the development of understanding, and eng...
Oracy in the Primary EFL Classroom: Theoretical Considerations and Insights from Empirical Studiesdoi:10.1007/978-3-031-59321-5_3English is currently understood as a lingua franca, widely used for global interactions. As a result, the need for effective communication skills has led to a rise in...
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If it is accepted that schools should be helping students to develop effective talk skills, then teachers need practical ways of monitoring and assessing the oracy skills of their students in a classroom setting. Useful schemes for assessing children's language development are available, but surprisin...
in the primary and secondary school contexts in which teachers are provided with explicit training opportunities that focus on the role of language in learning (in this case, academic oracy). We are at pains here not to further the deficit assumptions that teachers themselves are responsible for ...
The work of researchers such as Robin Alexander (2000) and Neil Mercer (2000) is to be commended in this process. They have continued to develop the case for oracy, exploratory talk, and learning through classroom dialogue, and the new Cambridge Primary Review (Alexander 2009) makes the case...
Concept maps can induce participative experiences in the classroom, through the interaction of all the classmates or teams of peers. When students work in an effective collaborative way, they discuss and act at the same time over the themes they are learning (Edwards & Mercer, 1987). In this...
It acknowledges that changes in educational policy have meant talk in the classroom has been both promoted and side-lined and concludes that as a result of fluctuating policy teachers' confidence in this aspect has been low and their practice inconsistent. The paper recommends that policymakers ...
Purpose This paper considers the growing interest in oracy and proposes the pedagogy of process drama as an ideal model for the dialogic classroom. The author draws on a successful drama/oracy project in a primary school in Brisbane, Australia to illustrate the connections between Alexander's five...
Drawing on vignettes based on observational data of early years and primary classroom practice in South Africa and Zambia, this paper offers a discursive exploration of how valuing oracy and legitimising multilingualism alter classroom dynamics and interactions between teachers and children. En-couraging...