In this course, you will explore current theories underlying oral communication skills, focusing in particular on the learning and teaching of a second or additional language learners in schools, both locally and internationally. Topics include theoretical and practical perspectives on oral communication across the curriculum; cognitive and metacognitive processes involved in speaking and listening; issues of intelligibility and pronunciation; genres of speaking and implications for listening; learning and teaching students for whom English is a second language or dialect planning; developing oral communication tasks and activities; assessing speaking and listening in the content areas.