TUTORING PARTNER 4 – Dongsoek, Meeting 4
Given my discovery of last week regarding Dongsoek’s difficulty with English cadence, my new strategy is to continue with the tongue twisters as well as the reenactment of scenes from his favorite TV shows (as we have been doing), but I am now going to try to introduce him to different kinds of speech cadences. Since there is no one answer to "how to produce an English cadence", I am trying to develop a multi-pronged approach. First, I am going to use our recreation of scenes from "Modern family", but I will have him interpret the scenes, reading them through with one consistent emotion each time, tying on several for size to see how stress changes the articulation of the lines (examples: angry, sad, overjoyed, etc.). I also sent him home with a couple of samples of presidential speech so he has a point of reference for oratory, and more rhetorical, official modes of address. I wanted him to listen to them and get the sounds in his ears.
Now, this coming week I will give him a couple of casual interviews with scientists to listen to so he becomes acquainted with the cadences of more normal, spontaneous, yet still slightly formal speech. I plan to continue working our way down all the way through more relaxed and informal speech. I’ll keep introducing him to different styles, until he can loosely distinguish stress patterns and rises and falls in voice depending on the speech context. I am eager to see how this will or will not work, but I trust that Dongsoek will be honest with me either way.
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