How the Imagery Instructional Teaching Ttrategy Affects the Dancing Learning Process of Taiwanese Junior High School Students
Abstract
The purpose of this empirical study is to investigate how the imagery instructional teaching strategy affects the result of dancing learning process of Taiwanese junior high school students. This empirical research was based on 50 first year junior high school students in Taiwan. They were divided into two groups which were an empirical group and a contrast group, and there were 25 students in each of the groups. The empirical group consisted of 14 male students and 11 female students. In the contrast group, there were 13 male students and 12 female students. The empirical group students were taught by the imagery instructional teaching strategy, and the contrast group maintained the same instruction as they normally received. This empirical teaching and study lasted for 7 weeks. The result of this study was analysis by the ANCOVA method and qualitative research.
There were several results found by this study as follows:
1. According to the analysis of the ANCOVA method, it is indicated that the more frequent practicing of imagery instructional learning actually helps learners to practice and learn dancing movements, and the learners achieve significant improvement by this method of instructional learning.
2. The empirical group who received the imagery instructional learning got comparably better results then the contrast group students who maintained the same instruction as usual.
3. In the performance of movement category, the third category which is movement of lower limbs and knees got the highest score and the sixth category which relates to stomach muscles got the lowest score.
4. Different frequencies of the imagery instructional practice led to different results.
5. The learner dancer who is able to link imagery and motion effectively gained the better learning result.
Furthermore, the finding of this empirical research suggests two points as a reference for further practical teaching.
Firstly, the suggestion for further research is that there should be a focus on the investigation between the creativity of the imagery instructional teaching and learners¡¦ practice, which would be useful for further researchers.
Secondly, the suggestion for practical teaching is adding the sense of motion by imagery instruction to physical movement for dancers¡¦ practicing and learning. It can be taught by the use of pictures or signs to indicate the movement to the dancers, and reinforces a better dancing performance for the learner by linking between message receiving and expression.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0717106-143927 |
| Date | 17 July 2006 |
| Creators | Leu, Sheu-eng |
| Contributors | none, none, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0717106-143927 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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