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Cyril Delhay: "Oral allows you to transcend social codes"

2021-06-09T20:38:26.529Z


INTERVIEW - Symbol of the reformed baccalaureate, the grand oral test has been strongly criticized. For the professor of public speaking at Sciences Po, its maintenance is “a collective incentive to change”.


Professor of public speaking at Sciences Po, Cyril Delhay is the main architect of the “grand oral” of the bac, wanted by Jean-Michel Blanquer.

He is the author of the report “Making the great oral a lever of equal opportunities”, delivered in 2019 to the Minister of Education.

Because Cyril Delhay does not believe in the "

prejudice

" according to which the oral is socially discriminating.

While the maintenance of this great oral has been strongly criticized - insufficiently prepared, according to the teachers' unions -, he believes that its holding, from this year, is "

a collective incentive to change

".

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LE FIGARO.

- What are the objectives of the grand oral?

Cyril DELHAY.

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This grand oral has the explicit objective of making it possible to acquire the competence of speaking in public, in a clear and convincing way.

It is a historic break.

The fact that the candidate must stand up, detaching himself from his notes and having concern for the listener, is an important detail.

Basically speaking is based on a technique of the body, since

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Source: lefigaro

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