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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 memor...

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 memor...

Hi, I'm a teacher of ESL at a community college. By chance I acquired a student who I tutor at his workplace. I would like to get some more students from businesses. Does anyone have any suggestions about what's a good way to advertise my tutoring to local businesses? Bruce Richman brucerichman22@ya...

A colleague on this forum and I are currently putting together a textbook on using songs to help ESL students improve pronunciation and other areas of English. We'd really like to hear from you if you have any ideas or experiences with using songs. My email is brucerichman22@yahoo.com. We hope to ha...

Does anyone know how to get one's hands on voice transcription software or equipment that's relatively cheap? I want to use it for an ESL pronunciation study

When I said that in learning you can't say what you can't hear, I merely meant a very mundane observation, from my own experience in hearing unknown- to- me languages and from classroom experiences. Now various forms of training based on written alphabets might overcome this; but as various responde...

Dear DH, Thanks for your reply. When I said that songs can help pronunciation I meant, first, they can help with rhythm and word stress, and later on, they can help with hearing and producing individual sounds. If you can't hear sounds you can't produce them; and rhythm and stress are absolutely ess...

Hi I'm gonna go to your website. But why don't you check out my post on this forum. When I say using songs for esl pronunciation, I also mean using the reciting of the song lyrics. I always start with to be or not to be in my classes. Bruce Richman [email protected]

I am looking for a collaborator for a project involving using the singing of songs (and the reciting of song lyrics) as a method of improving ESL students' pronunciation. If you are interested please contact me at brucerichman22@yahoo.com I am also interested in a general discussion and any help on ...

I am looking for a collaborator for a project involving using the singing of songs (and the reciting of song lyrics) as a method of improving ESL stufents' pronunciation. If you are interested please contact me at brucerichman22@yahoo.com I am also interested in a general discussion and any help on ...