oracy

First, they do not depend on children's literacy or oracy skills.

During the period of the study each child's progress was measured in eight subject areas including mathematics, reading, writing and oracy.

The term oracy was coined by Andrew Wilkinson, a British researcher and educator, in the 1960s.

Literacy and Second Language Oracy.

For the first time in this country, for many pupils, the assessment of oracy has been made compulsory: by GCSE.

"Debate Mate has raised the standard of oracy in school, enabling pupils to confidently share ideas, take part in whole class discussions and independently add their own opinions.

This basically is how oracy grows: it is to be taught by the creation of many and varied circumstances to which both speech and listening are the natural responses.'

The possibility of bias arises especially in the assessment of oracy, because of the difficulty of separating pupils' spoken language from perceptions of their personality and background.

The theoretical framework underlying the APU's oracy tests is echoed in the GCSE national criteria for assessing oral communication.

Recent initiatives such as the National Writing Project and the National Oracy Project have done much to foster such developments and to disseminate good practice.

Consolidate the Early Years Foundation Stage, extending it to age six so as to give young children the best possible foundation for oracy, literacy, numeracy, the wider curriculum and lifelong learning.

He was a member of the first generation of major contemporary Brazilian sociologists, working with Florestan Fernandes, Roger Bastide, Oracy Nogueira and Thales de Azevedo.

Despite the best efforts of the National Oracy Project and its successors, speech and language therapists, and teachers, UK governments have failed consistently to give primacy to establishing good levels of language development as the foundation for literacy.

Movements such as the development of Oracy testing in GCSE, the concerns of the Kingman Inquiry into the teaching of English language, the need for sophisticated Graded Objectives work in modern languages, and the pressures for multilingual education, all point in this direction.