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Speaking and Listening in Skills for Life
The merger of the Basic Skills Agency with NIACE and our joint emphasis on the importance of speaking and listening skills in the context of English first language speakers and Skills for Life teaching and learning has led to our first piece of collaborative work with TRIBAL as the Alliance.
The Alliance believes that effective communication skills need to be considered as fundamental enabling skills. The role of speaking and listening is especially critical as a tool for supporting thinking, learning and engaging with the world at large.
Speaking and listening skills are crucial to any individual’s:
 | Cognitive development |
| Educational achievement |
| Personal development |
| Participation and contribution to society |
| Considerable demands are placed on the knowledge, skills, expertise and qualities of those seeking to support and develop learners’ speaking and listening skills. |
The Alliance has examined key policy drivers, research studies and reports and attempted to identify current practice through desk research and practitioner survey. The results, together with our recommendations for supporting teaching and learning of speaking and listening skills in Skills for Life are outlined in the report ‘Speaking and Listening in Skills for Life: policy, practice and research’. This work is still in progress but a draft version of this document can be downloaded here - [PDF].
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