Breaking the Sounds' Barrier - ESL Applications

ESL Spanish Speaking Students!

"I have students who cannot speak any English, but they know the words to every song. This is a wonderful way to teach a language!."

Harriet Novak hold a Masters degree in English as a Second Language (ESL). Harriet teaches monolingual children English at Barnum Elementary School in the Denver Public School system. She reports, "Some of my students don't speak any English, yet they have memorized your songs! Singing is an excellent avenue to learning and using musical phonemic raps is a very effective way to teach phonemic enunciation!"

Harriet Novak

Harriet's Spanish speaking student enjoy phonemic music.