Communication skills and strategies

Students understand and analyse how language and stylistic features are used to achieve different purposes.

For example, they:

• develop oral communication skills by participating in and managing collaborative discussions and presentations in a range of contexts, including the academic context
• use stress, pitch, pace, and intonation for particular effects
• use a range of non‑verbal cues to complement and enhance meaning
• understand and use technical and/or other context‑specific language
• develop the use of cultural references, idioms, and colloquialisms
• develop written communication skills through creating texts for varied purposes and audiences
• develop the skills to make stylistic choices through the grammatical control of language and an increasing vocabulary.