| 单词 | oracy |
| 释义 | oracy|ˈɔərəsɪ| [f. L. ōs, ōr- mouth + -acy, after literacy.] The capacity or ability to express oneself fluently in speech. Also, oral transmission of poetry, etc.
1965A. Wilkinson Spoken Eng. 14 The term we suggest for general ability in the oral skills is oracy; one who has those skills is orate, one without them inorate. 1965New Society 12 Aug. 4/2 A new qualification has been proclaimed: oracy, ‘general ability in the oral skills’. The coiner of word and concept is Andrew Wilkinson, lecturer in education at Birmingham. 1967Daily Mirror 16 Oct. 18 The team is making a three-year investigation into oracy..with a {pstlg}15,000 grant from the Schools Council. 1971Daily Tel. 20 Apr. 14 An additional year..of the schooling..will not..benefit them unless it has been preceded by..a successful learning of literacy and of oracy. 1972T. A. Shippey Old Eng. Verse iv. 89 Though literacy and the fixed text may have killed ‘oracy’ in the long run, the change need not have happened as quickly as in the present century. |
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