What term would I choose instead? West rejected the term “oral preference learner,” as he believed people are not privileged to choose their first and foundational way of learning, to have a preference.750 I agree with him that orality is an identity, one that we all seem to have at the beginning of our lives. West chose another term, explaining: “As a more useful term, I offer French anthropologist Marcel Jousse’s verbomoteur to describe oralists as experiential, gestural, action and holistic in nature over those habitus-shaping effects that literacy-contingent models produce.”751
