speech-teaching

Updated: June 20, 2025

For example, an important factor in the early stage of speech-teaching is the nursery rhyme. A little child, towards the end of the first year, having accumulated a really very comprehensive selection of sounds and noises by that time, begins to imitate first the associated motions, and then the sounds of various nursery rhymes "Pat-a-cake," for example.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Mankind in the Making