THEHELPOFSONGSWHENLEARNINGPRONUNCIATION
Songs can be very helpful as far as learning pronunciation is concerned.
Theyprovidetheauthenticlanguagewithallits„traps“(suchasconnectedspeech,
differentpronunciationofthesamesound,ordifficultpronunciationofsomewords)
laidforlearners,whoshouldbeexposedtoitasmuchaspossibletostrengthentheir
abilityto understand it.In the following subsections we will concentrate on three
areas of difficulties in pronunciation (sounds, words, connected speech), and on
explainingwhysongscanbeusefulwhenthelearnersarecaughtintothese“trapsof
language”.