The Design Of Piano Teaching In Children Based On Transfer

Transfer is an effect made by one kind of learning to another kind of learning. It is a psychological phenomenon commonly existing in learning process. Transfer theory is an important theory in the learning theories system, which is also an important topic of educations and psychologists study.Students using the transfer theory can help themselves to improve the efficiency of learning and to cultivate good habits of self-study. Teachers using the transfer theory in the teaching process can help themselves to improve teaching and innovating abilities.Learning the piano is a sophisticated psychological and skills activities, and there are variety transfer phenomenon exist in the process of it. Piano teaching is also an activity with a high degree of artistry, technicality and scientificity. If teachers can scientifically use the transfer theory in children’s piano teaching, it will help students improve their learning efficiency, perfect the knowledge structure, build knowledge hierarchy and learn how to learn.In this paper, basing on the transfer theory, the author researchs and analyses several most prominent transfer phenomenon in piano learning, such as thinking transfer, motor skills transfer, and metacognition transfer. In addition, the author uses the original children’s piano teaching textbook published by American company Alfred as an example and combines the transfer theory to design a teaching practice case to help children’s positive transfer.This paper is divided into four chapters. The first chapter introduces the topic of this study cause, research content, methods, and significance, combing same relevant research literatures. The second chapter defines several relevant concepts and elaborates the transfer theory systematically, including the classification of transfer, the development of transfer theory, factors affecting transfer and strategies promoting transfer teaching. Chapter Ⅲ analyzes several transfer phenomenon existing in the piano study. Chapter IV designs a lesson in favor of positive transfer for children’s piano learning as a teaching practice case.