It has been said that children have a natural musical taste and
that play is the only activity that they take seriously. If this
is so, teachers should not let song practice or any activity
seem like work. They should keep it spontaneous. This has been
shown to apply even to language teachers. Acting on the idea
that just as the selection of a particular tempo and beat in
jazz may convey powerful and varied emotions, stress, and
intonation pattern of the spoken language are essential elements
for the expression of feelings and the intent of the speakers,
Carolyn Graham designed Jazz Chants to teach the natural rhythm,
stress and intonation patters of conversational American
English. Graham is not the only language teacher to recognize
that music can be a wonderful medium for natural language
learning, often called language acquisition. Language teachers
in Turkey, for example, have been using English language songs
to help children improve their English thorough enjoyable
activities. Readers who want to study