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Introducing and assessing oral communication skills in a history module.

Oral communication skills are now a key part of what any university programme aims to develop in its students. As 'transferable skills' they are generally agreed to be essential for employability (cf. Pedagogy 2004), but they are equally essential - as the Subject Benchmark in History explicitly recognises - as subject-specific skills: 'the capacity to sustain a reasoned line of argument in the face of others, to listen, to engage in sustained debate' is at the heart of academic endeavour.

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