Creating the Chinese Folk Songs Exercise Book for Middle School for Teaching Students at Jining University Affiliated Middle School in Jining City, Shandong Province, China

Abstract

         The purpose of this study are: 1) To study the Folk Song Singing.2) To create the Folk Song Singing Exercise Book for Middle School at Jining College.3) To use the Folk Song Singing Exercise Book for Middle School at Jining College.4) To find out the teaching results. This study adopts qualitative and quantitative research methods. In the qualitative research, experts were interviewed, and a Chinese folk song repertoire suitable for Grade 7 students was developed based on the content of the expert interviews. In the quantitative research, six students were selected from the Grade 7 students of the Jining University Affiliated Middle School to conduct the experiment.
          The results show that the Chinese Folk Song Singing Exercise Book covers the classification of Chinese folk songs, singing skills, historical background and other contents learnt by secondary school students. In terms of content, the booklet takes into full consideration the interests and learning characteristics of secondary school students, and introduces multimedia teaching, student group cooperative learning and other teaching methods, making the booklet more practical and operable. The results of the two tests show that the Chinese Folk Song Singing Exercise Book has a good guiding effect on improving the learning of Chinese folk songs by Grade 7 students of the Jining University Affiliated Middle School, and it also proves that the students' enthusiasm for learning Chinese folk songs is getting higher and higher. This Chinese Folk Song Singing Practice Book is successful and can provide some reference experiences for other middle schools.