THE JAZZ CHANT

by Thalia Vázquez Serrano

The Jazz Chant is a good tool to the teaching, because the sound, the rhymes are very interesting for students, they develop their skills like speaking, listening, and reading. You practice the pronunciation, this is very important, to have the stress and intonation, with support of the chant, poems that use rhythms of Jazz, this details the structure, pronunciation and presentation according with the topic or interest of the students, highlighting the specific structures, vocabulary, and pronunciation for each chant.

The activity "Jazz Chant" is innovate and exciting way, we can invent of the jazz chant, with only use three words or a long phrase. The chants and songs focus on natural language used by children in everyday situations.

You can use this tool to introduce the topic, like warm up, has a special characteristic according with the context of the topic. In my micro teaching, I introduced at students with a song about the topic, I used specific vocabulary, and the rhythm and gestures was motivation to a good learning. The students showed interest because they sang one again and again. All depend of the effective teacher, because is optimistic, motivator, has an interesting environment, with exciting activities and attitude.