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e one hand, both stem from the processing of sounds; on the other, both are used by their authors or speakers to convey a message, although language is much more precise than music, whose effect is mainly emotional. On another level, music and language have intrinsic features in common, such as pitch, volume, prominence, stress, tone, pauses and rhythm.”[14] Sounds are the roots of both music and speech. The melodic approach to language learning is mainly based on the evidence that musicality of speech has an effect not only on the pronunciation skills of English learners but also on their entire language acquisition process. First let’s see a sentence of the English song—Red River Valley: ---- ----5 1 │ 3 3 3 3 │ 3 3 2 3 │ 2 1 ---- ---- From this val-ley they say you are going,``` “It is obvious that the three words : ‘valley’, ‘say’, and ‘going’----these are stressed words---- all fall on the first or the third time of each section , that is, on the beat or secondary beat. The words: ‘From’, ‘this’, ‘they’ and ‘are’ are not key words, so they occupy only one time. While the words: ‘valley’, ‘say’, and ‘going’ all occupy two times; that is to say , when we sing these words, we have to prolong them, and we also have to give these three words full pronunciation . For the sake of the variety and richness of melody, the rhythm of a song often changes a lot freely; however, no matter how it changes, if the lyric of the song goes well with the music, the rhythm of the language will still be basically in accordance with the rhythm of the music.”[15] The rhythm of music refers to regular combination of length and strength of sounds; the rhythm of language refers to combination of alternate changes in speed, pitch and pauses in a certain period of time. Different languages have different rhythms. The rhythm of music share many similar features. Mastery of the rhythm of music can be greatly helpful to the learning of the rhythm of spoken English. Their similarities are as follows: (i) Stress alternates with non-stress, and thus there is a striking contrast. In the melody of music, stress is rhythm which constitutes the basic element of the melody. And “English is a stress-timed language.” Each English sentence is made up of rhythm groups. In every rhythm group, no matter how many syllables, there is only one stressed syllable similar to beat in music and this stressed syllable plays a key role in the rhythm of spoken English. (ii) Regularity of the Appearance of Stress The rhythm of music is regularly repeated; and the repetition is very strict. This is an important feature that makes music different from noise. The rhythm of spoken English also has the feature of regularity .Stress in spoken English appears in a periodical way, which is the manifestation of the rhythm. (iii) Stress is not used to mark off different sense groups. In music, stress is rhythm but it is used to mark off sense groups. In English, stress is only used to mark off different rhythm groups, not sense groups. Many English learners confuse rhythm groups with sense groups in spoken English. This influences their spoken English badly. (iiii) Pause is an important factor in the making of rhythm . Both music and spoken English have pauses. In spoken English, there are many kinds of pauses, such as phonetic pause, grammatical pause , etc . . In a word, these similarities between music and spoken English tell us that enough att