What is Oracy? Oracy is the ability to articulate ideas, develop understanding and engage with others through spoken language. It is a powerful tool with which students can become more effective speakers and listeners by better u...
To work out who you are and what you believe. If reading opens up a world of imagination and possibility,then speaking and listening opens up a lifetime of empowerment- a chance for those who feel invisible in their own country to be heard. It is about the confidence to speak out, to ...
but most participants expressed a lack of awareness of the concept of academic oracy. For example, when presented with the term oracy, Ash emphasised that they had ‘very, very little’ understanding of what it was,
Advocates of Oracy-Dialogics argue that it should play the major role in teaching and learning, yet it has also been argued that it plays little part in many teachers' pedagogic repertoire. This paper considers what is meant by Oracy-Dialogics. Then it describes research in a Cambridge ...
At the heart of the new curriculum is the revised and much strengthened domain of language, oracy and literacy, which also includes ICT and a foreign language. Oracy is considerably more rigorous that what is currently defined as 'speaking and listening' and enhances both literacy and the curric...
This contribution highlights both the components of IC and what makes assessing them so challenging. At the same time, it proposes a conversation-analytically inspired approach to assessing IC and discusses how that approach is currently being taught to pre-service teachers in interdisciplinary master'...