Definitions
Etymologies
- oral + -cy, by analogy with literacy; “oral literacy”. (Wiktionary)
Examples
““To develop communicative competence, or oracy, learners in CLIL need communicative functions …. etc” (page 16).”
“Enhanced literacy and numeracy, including the use of a wider vocabulary and greater oracy skills.”
“And it was also the thrust of the research the Sunday Times reported by Professor McEnery, who has pointed out that teenagers are still developing their oral communication skills, and that oracy needs to be an educational focus alongside literacy.”
“It's achieved some status in educational language studies, for example, because of the analogy with literacy and oracy.”
“Youtube3 same and different vocabulary animation simple ideas add the words animation 2 motivation widens audience audio ways to record what to do with it? using audio staff phonics pupils oracy”
“Rhyme Uno dos tres, CHO Uno dos tres, CO Uno dos tres, LA Uno dos tres, TE Bate bate chocolate Bate bate chocolate song and text clip song phonics literacy oracy ICU storytelling sharing whole class involvement French slideshare Spanish slideshare independence cross phase”
“I happen to a lover of public speaking, and I think am quite endowed with proficiency in oracy.”
“To equate communicative with “oracy” is only half of the overall equation, and as you have (in my opinion) quite rightly alluded to earlier, could be missing out on genuine opportunities for deeper processing (and yes, I love the fact that we are not only looking at the notion of “communicative” but how the ability develops, what facilitates it for second language learners in particular, etc.”
“Teresa Cremin, president of the United Kingdom Literacy Association, said: "We are very pleased to see a higher profile given to oracy but we are concerned that there seems to be no drama in the upper primary years linked to literacy.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘oracy’.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for oracy.
vanishedone From some new educational proposals: 'The domains would be: arts and creativity; citizenship and ethics; faith and belief; language, oracy and literacy; mathematics; physical and emotional health; place and time (geography and history); science and technology.' Feb 20, 2009