Helped the students understand how to put a newspaper together and to improve their English (written and oral) skills.
But conversation is not widely included in formal instruction, and oral skills lag far behind.
"Our assessment system must move away from pure examinations and towards a blended range of assessments like personal projects, extended essays, oral skills, as well as formal exams.
A superior officer, impressed with the soldier's oral skills, asked him to commit his ideas to paper.
"I tell them what you learn here can be applied to any career: discipline, punctuality, literacy, oral skills, compassion".
In fairness to Gove, that change was prompted by Ofqual, the exams regulator, which argued that assessing oral skills was incompatible with ensuring comparable standards across different schools and different years.
One of them, a teen-ager, is used by a couple of underage girls as a test bed for their oral skills; the other, aged only six, blunders uncomprehendingly into Internet sex.
After their half hour was up, the participants then had 10 minutes to present their ideas to two judges, who asked questions and then scored the presentation based on the students' oral skills, knowledge of terminology and understanding of marketing and business principles.
There is worldwide recognition that oral skills need to be assessed (Wilde et al.2009).2009
Your suggestions about postdocs and good written and oral skills are excellent ones.
The results also revealed that there is a growing tendency to oral skills among engineering students.
