Oracy refers to the ability to speak well. Speaking well is essential to education, to the workplace and to social democracy, where informed, reflective and critical citizens play a role in creating and influencing public discourse. It is one of the most important communication skills that management graduates should seek to master, yet oracy is rarely taught in management education.

This paper describes a teaching and assessment initiative, introduced to a postgraduate class in a UK Business School, which developed students’ speaking competence by combining the critical exploration of the course content with the explicit teaching of oracy skills. Influenced by the philosophy of critical pedagogy with its emphasis on dialogue, the initiative demonstrates that dialogic teaching combined with oracy skills training encourages students to engage in purposeful talk around course content which extends their repertoire of spoken communication skills relevant to the workplace and beyond.

The paper brings oracy to the attention of management educators as a means of better preparing graduates for management roles. It demonstrates how an oracy framework can be used to inform course content and to provide a guide to assessing spoken communication. Practical advice is provided for tutors integrating oracy into current teaching practices.

Oracy是指说话能力强。良好的讲话对教育，工作场所和社会民主至关重要，在这些地方，知情，善解人意和挑剔的公民在创造和影响公众话语中发挥着作用。这是管理专业毕业生应寻求掌握的最重要的沟通技巧之一，但管理教育中很少教授言语。

本文介绍了一种教学和评估计划，该计划被引入英国商学院的研究生班，该课程通过对课程内容的批判性探索与对口头表达能力的明确教学相结合，发展了学生的口语能力。受到批判教学法哲学（以对话为重点）的影响，该计划表明，对话教学与口头表达技巧培训相结合，可鼓励学生围绕课程内容进行有目的的讨论，从而扩大其与工作场所及其他有关的口头表达能力。

该论文引起了管理教育者的注意，这是使毕业生更好地准备担任管理职务的一种手段。它演示了如何使用Oracy框架来告知课程内容并提供评估口语交流的指南。为辅导员提供了实用的建议，将讲义融入当前的教学实践中。