"oral language" is correct and usable in written English.
For example, "I find that students often learn better when they practice skills through oral language activities."
Up to the 1950s, the predominant method in deaf education was oralism – acquiring oral language comprehension and production.
"It is sensational for oral language development," she said.
Oral language skills - rather than reading and writing - were key.
"If we don't preserve the oral language, then it will quickly disappear," she said.
Until recent times Noongar has only ever been an oral language.
(Note: This was the first evidence of written, as opposed to oral, language).
"You play a very key role in oral language development and background knowledge," Dowd told them.
Whereas oral language is learned quite independently of whether it is taught or not, literacy is largely dependent upon teaching.
"Developing oral language skills or ensuring academic targets reflect developmental capacity could substantially reduce the numbers of children requiring specialist clinical services in later years," the researchers conclude.
Most educators believe, as I do, that a country's sign language can be learned before one acquires reading and writing mastery of the oral language in that country.
Gaelic teacher Larry Siegel describes the difficulty of this language, and said that it is being revived and that it is basically an oral language.
