Jazz Chants as a Didactic Strategy for Learning Vocabulary in Kindergarteners

Gonzalo Romero Martínez, Laura D. Vargas and Paola A. Ospina

This paper reports an Action Research study that aimed at analyzing the incidence of the implementation of Jazz Chants as didactic strategy to learn English vocabulary in kindergarteners in a Spanish monolingual context in Colombia. Initially, a diagnostic test was applied to 20 kindergarteners at the Bilingüe Hispanoamericano School located in Tuluá-Colombia, in order to establish their knowledge of vocabulary in English; which results were low. Later, a didactic sequence based on the strategy Jazz Chants, focused on learning vocabulary in English, was designed and applied, which addressed three themes established by the institution's curriculum: colors, shapes and classroom objects. Then, the students had to make use of the Jazz chants to perform different activities along the didactic sequence during each session in order to practice and become familiar with the vocabulary. After the didactic sequence, students' knowledge of vocabulary was evaluated again in order to analyze the incidence of the implementation of the strategy, which results were remarkably satisfactory.

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