Jazz chants as a teaching device

Abstract EN

This study examined the effectiveness of Jazz chants as a new and modern activity in teaching and learning English grammar and vocabulary at the primary stagein Iraq .An expermental design was used in comparing the effect of jazz chants and the traditional approach to language developement on the experimental group and control group respectivelly.

The subjects for the study comprised (84)pupils in the 5th primary school selected for the study.

The subjects were exposed to pretest before the (four-weeks) programme and post –test after being exposed to (four) weeks of teaching .The experimental group viewed and were taught the prescribed items of the syllabus using the jazz chants ,as the classroom material,while the control group were exposed to the traditional approach for (four weeks).T-test was used for statistcal analysis of the data.The results showed that there was significant improvemenent in the academic performance of the experimental group than the control group.Certain recommendations were submitted due to the findings of the study.