Welcome - ORACY CAMBRIDGE
WEBCreating and sharing practical support materials for developing and assessing oracy, in schools and workplaces; and providing ‘talk audits’ for schools on how spoken language is being used in their classrooms.
Resources - ORACY CAMBRIDGE
WEBThis page has some practical resources for teachers and teacher-trainers to use to improve the quality and quantity of pupil talk in classrooms. Please let us know how you get on!
WEBThe Oracy Skills Framework (OSF) specifies the various skills young people need to develop to deal with a range of different talk situations. The framework has been developed by drawing on available existing resources and …
Oracy Cambridge - Hughes Hall
WEBOracy Cambridge aims to address this situation by: Raising awareness of the importance of effective spoken communication, and ways that it can be taught and learned, amongst policy makers and practitioners, within the UK and internationally.
Oracy in schools ‘a gamechanger for raising the bar’
WEBJul 11, 2023 · Oracy Cambridge has worked extensively and internationally with teachers, researchers and education policy makers to promote oracy in schools and in wider society.
ORACY CAMBRIDGE makes waves in parliament - Hughes Hall
WEBORACY CAMBRIDGE is a Bridge Centre based at Hughes Hall, in the University of Cambridge. Its aim is to promote oracy in schools and in the wider society. Their work includes writing papers for governments and other organisations (see here), providing training and consultancy for schools (see here), and organising conferences.
Social in/justice and the deficit foundations of oracy
WEBFeb 6, 2024 · Oracy is a hot topic in England’s education landscape, increasingly deployed as part of a bipartisan theory of social justice which claims that improved abilities in spoken language can afford working-class and racialised children a route out of the economic and racial inequalities they experience.
WEBThe term ‘oracy’ was coined by Wilkinson in the 1960s to emphasise the educational importance of spoken language skills, on a par with reading and writing skills; he defined oracy as ‘the ability to use the oral skills of speaking and listening’ 1. The concept was championed in the UK by the National Oracy Project in the late 1980s,
Oracy Assessment Resources - University of Cambridge
WEBOracy Cambridge is based at Hughes Hall, in the University of Cambridge. Their aim is to promote oracy in schools an in the wider society. Their work includes writing papers for governments and other organisations, providing training and consultancy for schools, and organising conferences.
On defining oracy - ORACY CAMBRIDGE
WEBJun 10, 2024 · Oracy Cambridge. As an organisation, Oracy Cambridge has never offered a definition of oracy, although various members of the OC team have defined the concept in our many blogs. However, the strap-line of Oracy Cambridge is ‘The Hughes Hall Centre for Effective Spoken Communication’.