The Research On Applying Cognitive Learning Theory In Vocal Music Teaching

Vocal music teaching methodology is an important research topic in education society. In traditional vocal music teaching class, both teachers and students are accustomed to the so-called "teacher says while student listening" mode. In such class that teachers play the leading role, students just imitate what teacher does. Vocal music teaching pays much attention on practical singing ability of students, but it cares less about the teaching methodology and the learning theory. Learning Theory is the theory basis of all kinds of teaching and learning. Therefore, this thesis presents a novel methodology by combining Learning Theory with psychology, pedagogics and vocal music education. More formally, the presented vocal music education integrates Gestalt Learning Theory, Constructionist Learning Theory and Information -Processing Theory. The presented vocal music education methodology also takes care of the new problems occurred in the new age. The thesis also presents a lot of practical strategies by giving experiments and examples. We believe that the thesis could help to enrich vocal music teaching theory, to assist the vocal music teaching practice, and to make the vocal music teaching and learning more scientific.The thesis is made of five sections. The first section is introduction, which states the theoretical and the practical contribution of our research. The second section includes the motivation and the theory basis, i. e., the Cognitive Learning Theory, of our research, including its definition and features. In the third section, we studies three important theories of Cognitive Learning Theory. They are Gestalt Learning Theory, Constructionist Learning Theory and Information - Processing Theory. The section also presents the theoretical research on application of these theories. The fourth section focuses on applying the theoretical research results in practice. We present a lot of vocal music teaching strategies in this section. The last section concludes the whole thesis and the related work.