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		Definition of oracy in English: oracynoun ˈɔːrəsiˈôrəsē mass nounBritish The ability to express oneself fluently and grammatically in speech.  infant teachers will be urged to concentrate on reading, writing, oracy and numeracy  Example sentencesExamples -  There are low levels of English literacy and oracy in many cases.
 -  It has given shape to much of the Western world's inheritance of oracy and literacy.
 -  She says research by the program's originators, Brian Gray and Wendy Cowie, at the University of Canberra, indicates that written English is a vehicle and means of improving children's oracy.
 -  It is in this context of the various communicative competencies required for electronic production and consumption that the term ‘literacy’ (or for that matter ‘oracy’) is questionable.
 -  And we're offering the students a program which not only develops their writing but their oracy from the beginning of schooling.
 
 
 Origin   1960s: from Latin os, or- 'mouth', on the pattern of literacy.    Definition of oracy in US English: oracynounˈôrəsē British The ability to express oneself fluently and grammatically in speech.  infant teachers will be urged to concentrate on reading, writing, oracy and numeracy  Example sentencesExamples -  It is in this context of the various communicative competencies required for electronic production and consumption that the term ‘literacy’ (or for that matter ‘oracy’) is questionable.
 -  And we're offering the students a program which not only develops their writing but their oracy from the beginning of schooling.
 -  She says research by the program's originators, Brian Gray and Wendy Cowie, at the University of Canberra, indicates that written English is a vehicle and means of improving children's oracy.
 -  There are low levels of English literacy and oracy in many cases.
 -  It has given shape to much of the Western world's inheritance of oracy and literacy.
 
 
 Origin   1960s: from Latin os, or- ‘mouth’, on the pattern of literacy.     |