Examples of oracy

• Secondly, oracy contributes greatly to children's literacy development; more exploratory talk, therefore, should be encouraged in the classroom.

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

• Owing to the students' insufficient oracy skills, one training focus is to upgrade their listening and speaking competence.

• Following an overview of the importance of oracy for learning, the article describes the importance of assessment, especially formative assessment, in impelling progress.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• I apologise for the horrible noun, but the alternative, oracy, is even nastier.