The scientists found out that the musical ear, attention is closely connected with the development of the articulatory apparatus. Learning and performing short, uncomplicated melodic drawings, but with a clear rhythm, with frequent repetitions of songs, help to memorize articulation, accentuations, pronunciation of sounds and words more quickly and for a long time. Thanks to the use of music and rhythm, the psychological climate of the class is significantly improved, the tension disappears, the emotional tone of the pupils is raised, and the interest in the subject is maintained. Even students who did not show high achievements, feel more confident and comfortable. The whole galaxy of psychologists - scientists has proved that the emotions that stimulate the cognitive processes of man are the most important condition that ensures the effectiveness of the process of education and upbringing.
But, despite the fact that music is a unique means for mastering the educational material, its possibilities have not been studied enough.
And the experience of teachers who already have certain merits in this field is extremely valuable, requiring study and wide application.
Jazz rhythms and a combination with English
In this sense, the author's jazz technique Carolyn Graham (Carolyn Graham), a professor at the New York University, teaches at the American Linguistic Institute in Harvard, is very interesting and effective in mastering English as well as conversational American. It should be noted that Carolyn, in addition, herself is an outstanding pianist and jazz singer, and all her "chants" (tunes) are voiced by world-famous musicians such as Dick Hyman, Jack Jeffers' sextet and others.
Carolyn Graham is the author of such interesting tutorials as Jazz chants, Jazz chants for children, Jazz chant fairy Tales. These are tales, poems, songs, laid on jazz music for children and teenagers.
An extraordinary event in terms of innovation in the teaching of English was her collection of "Small Talk or More Jazz Chants" for adults, with a beautiful musical design. Truth be told, it's not just music, songs, rhymes in English. And these are not songs at all. Just the idea of the technique and technique of learning English and American language lies in a musical jazz base. Small Talk Carolyn Graham is the best collection of Jazz Chants. Such colloquial exercises, monologues, dialogues, phrases repeated many times under jazz music in different tempo and rhythm are really unique technique, a combination of american English with the rhythm of jazz, which must be seen, heard, to the fullest to understand and appreciate. Carolyn Graham uses genius jazz rhythms to teach American English for 30 years. And, as all the teachers working in this direction note, such technique and technique, which is built on jazz rhythms that coincide with the rhythm of the language, gives a quick and lasting result. Such cultural and musical training helps pupils, students, listeners to learn a heavy sound system of conversation, pronunciation and just language. You need complicated phrases in your life that you can not build and translate (clichés that you just need to learn, know and use), are remembered for rhythmic music quickly and easily, and remember easily (heard or remembered music - remembered the phrase). That is, memory is activated by a musical rhythm. This technique allows you to train and hearing, and a sense of rhythm, music, dance, motor skills. Here it is appropriate to play, role-playing and didactic games in the classroom. This study with pleasure, with joy, in a positive. This development of the creative side of the individual, both in the musical, and in the language, author's, director's sense. This method is especially effective for teaching children's foreign language. Children themselves are happy to create "chants" in different languages, their own scenes and for their music.
In addition to solving the main task - mastering a foreign language, it is the exchange of positive energy, its accumulation for the universe.