oral communication
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- noun
- /ˈɔrəl kəˌmjunɪˈkeɪʃən/
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comunicación oral
- Employers seek job candidates with critical thinking abilities, great written and oral communication skills, and honesty, among other characteristics.
- oral communication skills
- oral communication competency
- oral communication course
Examples
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Vocal inflections, so significant to oral communication, can serve to increase communicative accuracy and expressivity.
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Effective oral communication is essential for teamwork and collaboration in any workplace.
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Both listening skills and oral communication skills are acquired through the sense of hearing.
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Storytelling is an ancient art, as old as oral communication itself.
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Several experts have described the interaction between oral communication strategy use and actual performance.
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Comments were positive regarding the improvement of individual oral communication skills as a result of the project updates.
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The results indicate that through peer feedback, students' oral communication performance was enhanced.
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The inputs provided by peers have a positive impact on learners' overall oral communication ability.
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Specifically, this center's overall goal is to enhance the oral communication competency of all students at the university.
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Skill-based learning objectives can be summarized as: improve oral communication skills by participating in an interview process.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
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2.1
The act of sharing information, ideas, or feelings with other people
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1.0
The ability to use words with your voice to show thoughts or feelings
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1.0
An activity of sharing ideas or information by speaking to someone
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6.4
Speech or writing about a topic
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1.0
The act of talking to other people, for example giving a speech
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3.0
Talking to share information, often by phone or radio
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8.5
The way people speak to share ideas instead of writing them down
Talking to share information or ideas
Sharing ideas and information by speaking to others
Antonyms
How Formal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the sharing of information or ideas by speaking' is directly and compositionally derived from 'oral' (spoken) + 'communication' (exchange of information). This is a regular, cross-linguistically common adjective + noun combination following straightforward semantic composition, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it.
Etymology
Oral communication comes from a simple image: oral means 'by mouth' and communication means 'sharing information'. So, oral communication means 'sharing information by speaking', not by writing.