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Oracy - current trends in context; the irrepressible genre; oralexchange - a historical review; oracy in England; the politics oforacy; anecdote and the development of oral argument in 16 years old;small group talk; is there a task in this class? the literate potentialof collaborative talk; the roots of oracy - early language at home andat school; putting context into oracy - the construction of sharedknowledge through classroom and discourse; oral models in the press;scripting for creative video; children's oral cultures - a transitionalexperience; counting out - form and function of children's counting outrhymes.