Oracy has rarely been far from the headlines in the last couple of years. Yet, for all this debate, there has been little consensus on what oracy actually is.
So, what is oracy and where did the term come from? The term was first coined by academic Andrew Wilkinson in the 1960s to raise the profile of spoken language and listening by giving oracy the same status as literacy and numeracy, which were already accepted as key objects of study in education.
It captures the essential need for talk (just as one needs to be literate or numerate) and couples it with the idea that it is a skill that can be acquired through teaching.
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