Talking and learning: A cross a faculty exploratory study through curriculum documents, lecturers' interviews and class observations

This is a cross faculty exploratory study that reports on the entry level speaking by higher education students in class and the orientations of their tutors to the construct ´´speaking as a graduate capability´´. Speaking is difficult to conceptualise as such and so it is associated here with the skill of communication which, in a research based approach to generic graduate capabilities, Barrie (2004), embeds in global citizenship.