He stressed three: communication—including oracy—the application of numbers and information technology.
I apologise for the horrible noun, but the alternative, oracy, is even nastier.
Tonkin treats a complex and timely set of ideas when she studies the relationships between oracy and literacy, oral narrative performance and written texts, memory and history and society.
Personal experience of seven-year-olds tells me that writing skills are less developed than oracy skills, and therefore unlikely to yield a rich source of qualitative constructs.
Key elements in the discussion should include teachers' pedagogical practices, based on their understanding of language development, as well as the role literacy plays in the development of oracy.
Following an overview of the importance of oracy for learning, the article describes the importance of assessment, especially formative assessment, in impelling progress.
Owing to the students' insufficient oracy skills, one training focus is to upgrade their listening and speaking competence.
First, they do not depend on children's literacy or oracy skills.
