【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 icance of English songs in spoken EnglishStudents can benefit greatly from singing English songs, as they will practice and correct their pronunciation. “The pace of songs is sometimes fast and sometimes slow which requires more accuracy in pronunciation, liaison, skimming, stress etc. is especially helpful to the pronunciation of English learners” (Xu Ping, 2008:5355). LiaisonThere is no doubt that there are many liaisons appearing in English. Let’s have a look at the definition of liaison: liaison means the linking of sounds or words. This is a term used in phonology to refer to one type of transition between sounds, where a sound is inserted at the end of a word, if particularly, the following word begins with a vowel, and liaison always appears in a sense of group. The final consonant of the proceeding word is united to the initial vowel of the next word in the same sense group. When the English learners begin to sing the song with lots of liaison, they will start to handle them in the process of singing, or they will end up with wrong voice, as the paces of the rhythms wait for no man. Furthermore, it also sounds more beautiful.For example, “your eyes” always appears in English songs, and it frequently use liaison, reads [j?? raiz], “In your eyes, I found the greatest surprise (from That Where You Find The Love)”, “When the stars are in your eyes, and the sun in her smile (from Westlife)”. “Here I am” reads [hi?rai230。m] when the singer singing the song Here I Am, respectively sung by the band Air Supply and singer Bryan.Another example, when we singing the song “Never Say Goodbye”. If I could take this moment foreverTurn the pages of my mindTo another place and timeWe would never say goodbye.We will admit that those words are sung in the form of liaison. If⌒I reads [ifai], pages⌒of reads [peid?z?f], place⌒and reads [pleis230。nd]. The technique of sound linking is so obvious that we can use of it to achieve fluency which is an important factor in spoken English. In the course of singing, students can learn the skill of liaison spontaneously. After a long time of practicing, students utterly master the ability of liaison. Inplete Plosive Plosive is a consonant sound that is made by plete stopping in the flow of air out of your mouth and then suddenly letting it out. For example, when saying b or t. when a plosive sound not actually pronounced but only the speech organs are put to the position for it and the closure is held for the usual time of pronouncing it, it is known as inplete plosive. It takes place in a word when a plosive is followed immediately by another plosive, or a fricative. It may also take place at the junction of words. Inplete plosive also plays an important role in oral English. Lots of students can not speak fluently because they don’t know how to handle it in the application of speaking English. But through singing English songs, students gradually hold the technique of inplete plosive. As there are a great deal of inplete plosive in English songs, students are able to master it by imitation.For example, students will easily found that the Michael Learns To Rock’s popular “Take Me To Your Heart” have to skim a lot parts if they want to sing a fairsounding song like the singer. Hiding from the rain and snowTrying to forget but I won39。t let goLooking at a crowded streetListening to my own heart beatSo many peopleAll around the worldTell me where do I findSomeone like you girlTake me to your heart Lyrics in these sentences “but, won’t, let, at, street, heart ” skims [t], “around, find” skims [d], “take” skims [k] pronunciation in the practical singing. In a word, students can master the ability to skim the pronunciation of [p], [b], [t], [d], [k], [g] properly. When any of those phonemes appears in the songs, it should be skimmed. Rhythm and ToneTo mand excellent spoken English, students not only need correct grammars and words, but also have a good rhythm and tone. Beautiful English songs are different from noise because they have nice rhythm, which causes a nice melody. In a rhythm group, a syllable is stressed similar to beat in music and this stressed syllable plays a key role in the rhythm of spoken English. The rhythm of music is regularly repeated, which is also a feature in spoken English. When one can sing an English song well, he will naturally know which syllable to stress, and master the regularity of the sentence, now how to pause and speed. These appear in a periodical way in spoken English. When one has mastered these well, his spoken English will have a good rhythm. In fact, singing is sort of speaking. Tone is also an important factor in spoken English. When one sings an English song, he imitates the pitch of the words, and he will put all the emotion into it, spontaneously, he has a good t