Songs for Speaking: using song lyrics and rhythmical poetry to improve prosody
Bruce Richman writes:
I’m almost finished writing a textbook book called Songs for Speaking in which I use song lyrics from American folk songs and show tunes and also use rhythmical poetry to help students learn, analyze, and memorize English rhythm, stress, and intonation patterns. Songs and poetry are so easy to memorize that it makes memorizing the prosodic patterns of English relatively easy. Once students memorize these patterns it’s easy to help them extend their use to conversational speech.
I’m uploading several chapters from my book and I’d like people to look them over and make comments. I’d really appreciate your feedback.
