Carolyn Graham is the creator of numerous
English-language teaching
Teaching English as a second (TESL) or foreign language (TEFL) and teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) are terms that refer to teaching English to students whose first language is not English. The terms TEFL, TESL, and TESO ...
books, most notably ''
Jazz Chants'' and ''Let's Sing, Let's Chant'', published by
Oxford University Press
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. She also wrote the songs for the
''Let's Go'' (textbooks) and
Susan Rivers' ''Tiny Talk'' series of ELT books, also published by
OUP
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.
Jazz Chants
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Graham's
Jazz Chants became popular along with the
ESL teaching methods and techniques during the same period.
Graham developed the technique of jazz chanting during her 25 years of teaching ESL in the American Language Institute of
New York University
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. She has also taught at
Harvard University
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and has conducted workshops in the NYU School of Education,
Columbia Teachers College in New York and Tokyo, and elsewhere throughout the world.
Bibliography
Graham is the author of numerous Jazz Chants books, mostly published by
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press officially granted the legal right to print books ...
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Oxford University Press
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American textbook writers
Women textbook writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
New York University faculty
Harvard University faculty
Columbia University faculty