COURSE TITLE: "Amazing Nursery Rhymes: Learning English pronunciation (and a lot more) through Nursery Rhymes".
The communicative abilities of English as a second language will be developed from lev. A2 to lev. B1 by adopting a Culture and Content-based methodology. This will allow simultaneously: 1. strengthening the adult learner's communicative competences and 2. enhancing phonetic, lexical and pragmalinguistic knowledge (only functionally the morpho-syntactical one). These competences will be bent to the uses of professional figures such as teachers for 0-3 children, prison educators and even mediators of immaterial cultural heritage. The corpus of the English Nursery Rhymes is particularly appropriate for several reasons: it helps pronunciation and oral abilities to be developed by both adults and children in a context of inclusion; it stimulates research in multilingual historical and cultural backgrounds; it increases vocabulary and helps practising the verb system; it can be used as a motivational tool in view of different learning styles.

I. Opie & P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, Oxford, Clarendon,1951 (on internetarchive.org)
Geoffrey Leech & Jan Svartvik, A Communicative Grammar of English, Longman, any edition.