Communication skills and strategies

Students exchange information, opinions, and experiences through writing and speaking in a range of situations and contexts.

For example, they:

• develop effective speech, using skills and strategies such as clear pronunciation, intonation, stress, and rhythm
• learn active listening strategies
• learn ways of working collaboratively with others by initiating, sustaining, and concluding interactions in a range of contexts
• develop an understanding of non‑verbal cues, cultural references, metaphors, and connotations
• consider purpose, audience, and context when making language choices
• develop effective writing skills and strategies such as punctuation, vocabulary, and grammatical and lexical competence
• use persuasive, descriptive, and emotive language as appropriate
• use a range of cohesive and structural devices to organise ideas logically
• use and understand jargon, technical, or ‘expert’ language.