COD 2025 - D1174

"Oracy Strategies for the English Classroom"

Primary and Secondary School Heads, Coordinators and Teachers

4 sessions, start: 15-Sep

Please enrol before Wednesday, September 10th 2025

Course detail

Year: 2025
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Announced
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Ms. Luciana Fernández
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 120000.00
Non affiliate
ARS 120000.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Schedule
1 15 September - 21 September 2025 Online session
2 22 September - 28 September 2025 Online session
3 29 September - 05 October 2025 Online session
4 06 October - 12 October 2025 Online session

Facilitator/s

Luciana Fernández

Luciana Fernández is a graduate teacher of English who has been teaching English for the past twenty-nine years. She has specialized in Methodology and Teaching Practice and she holds a Diploma in Educational Research from the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education. She holds two post graduate certifications in Thinking Cultures and Teaching for Comprehension

She is a Reading and Literacy expert and has been training teachers in this area for the past fifteen years. She is a teacher educator and has designed several presentations and courses for professional development both in Argentina and abroad. Her presentation at ARTESOL 2015 was selected to be presented at TESOL International as a Best Affiliate Session. She is one of the 50 scholarship winners who attended and presented at IATEFL, held in Birmingham in April 2016. She was later on invited to be a presenter at the Young Learners and Teenagers SIG pre conference event and at the main conference.

Luciana has been the Head at several bilingual IB institutions in Buenos Aires. At present she is a school advisor, teacher trainer and facilitator at ESSARP (English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate), where she trains heads and teachers from the most important bilingual institutions in Argentina.
Primary and Secondary School Heads, Coordinators and Teachers
Develop an understanding of oracy as a key component of English language learning.
Explore strategies to enhance students’ speaking and listening skills across age groups.
Integrate oracy into everyday classroom practices, assessment, and cross-curricular activities.
Foster inclusive and dialogic classroom environments that promote student voice and participation.
Definition and dimensions of oracy (cognitive, social, linguistic, physical)
Why oracy matters in English education
The link between oracy, literacy, and equity
Ground rules and routines for talk
Exploratory talk, dialogic teaching, and student voice
Group work, roles, and talk scaffolding
Activities to foster fluency, articulation, reasoning, and confidence
Listening as an active and teachable skill
Age-appropriate oracy goals: primary vs. secondary focus
Embedding oracy in lesson planning and curriculum
Tools for assessing oracy (rubrics, peer feedback, recordings)
Oracy across subjects and digital tools for practice
Fully online, asynchronous format via a virtual learning platform.
Each module includes:
A short reading or video lecture
Practical ideas and approaches
A reflective forum discussion
Emphasis on collaborative learning and reflection.
To be specified.
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