Oracy matters : the development of talking and listening in education

Author(s)

    • MacLure, Margaret
    • Phillips, Terry
    • Wilkinson, Andrew M.
    • International Oracy Convention (1987 : University of East Anglia)

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Oracy matters : the development of talking and listening in education

edited by Margaret MacLure, Terry Phillips, Andrew Wilkinson

(English, language, and education series)

Open University Press, 1988

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"Selection of papers from the International Oracy Convention, organised by the School of Education at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, in 1987"--P. [viii]

Includes bibliographies and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Leading scholars and teachers in the field are represented in this volume on the wide role of oracy in schools.

Table of Contents

  • Oracy - current trends in context
  • the irrepressible genre
  • oral exchange - a historical review
  • oracy in England
  • the politics of oracy
  • anecdote and the development of oral argument in 16 years old
  • small group talk
  • is there a task in this class? the literate potential of collaborative talk
  • the roots of oracy - early language at home and at school
  • putting context into oracy - the construction of shared knowledge through classroom and discourse
  • oral models in the press
  • scripting for creative video
  • children's oral cultures - a transitional experience
  • counting out - form and function of children's counting out rhymes.

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