oral skills
collocation in Englishmeaningsoforalandskill
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oral
adjective
uk/ˈɔː.rəl/us/ˈɔːr.əl/
spoken and ...
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skill
noun[C or U]
uk/skɪl/us/skɪl/
an ability to do an activity or job well, especially because you have ...
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(Definition oforalandskillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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One might wonder how children's pronunciation is influenced by the teachers' nonnative oral skills.
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However, alongside the acquisition of oral skills, there was a development in the territory of textual skills.
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The removal of the usual topics that spark exchange and allow students to practice oral skills was clearly going to tax our creativity.
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Teachers and learners are often uncertain about the processes at work when students attempt to acquire oral skills in a foreign language.
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Students' performance on these interviews provided further evidence regarding the development of their oral skills.
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Classes met 2 hours every day during the summer and were conducted following some version of communicative language teaching, in which oral skills were emphasized.
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It explores how teachers, students, and other stakeholders collaboratively develop classroom based assessment procedures for the local evaluation of oral skills.
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We further target the abilities of adult illiterates-and, ultimately, the oral skills those individuals bring to the process of second language acquisition.
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Students' oral skills were tested but not measured in ways which allowed comparison with scores on other skills.
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More research, however, is needed to ascertain whether giving students opportunities to produce language leads to greater gains in automaticity and the development of oral skills.
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Theatre voice training and technology in teaching oral skills: integrating the components of a speech event.
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Surely it is of far higher priority to produce students first with oral skills and later with those other skills in foreign languages.
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Although she had good oral skills, she could not move much of her body.
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The exam places greater emphasis on the importance of communication skills and in particular oral skills.
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Higher education entry requirements through the examination boards still place too much emphasis on teaching grammar and literature in language curricula at the expense of oral skills.
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In general, teaching focuses on the development of oral skills.
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