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The Hull West and Hessle MP, Emma Hardy, believes speaking and listening skills should be explicitly taught in schools. She says: "My concerns with speaking and listening in schools, is that they are not explicitly taught and that children are just expected to develop them naturally. We know that some children will need more support with this than others and the ways that you give presentations or the way that you give speeches or the way in which you work as a team, some of the skills involved in that I think do actually need to be taught explicitly." Emma Hardy is Chair of the Oracy All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), a cross-party group of MPs which is continuing to collect evidence for the Speak for Change Parliamentary Inquiry, which was launched last year and is seeking to improve oracy education (the development of verbal communication skills) for every child in schools. This week the Oracy APPG will look at international evidence of how teaching speaking and listening skills can help develop children and young people and how this has an impact on society as a whole. The 大象传媒 has contacted the Department for Education for comment.