The Learning Process and Effectiveness of Using WebQuest for Beijing Opera Appreciation for Sixth-Grade Elementary Students

• Main Author: 彭心晏
• Other Authors: Sheau-Yuh Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78653347295999200147

碩士 === 臺北市立教育大學 === 音樂學系教學碩士學位班 === 98 === The aim of this study was to investigate the learning process and effectiveness of sixth-grade elementary students in the WebQuest for Beijing Opera appreciation program. Specific research purposes included the studying of students’ participation situation and their problem encountered in such appreciation activities, as well as the examining of their learning effects in Beijing Opera cognition and appreciating attitudes. An exploratory case study was conducted, in which the researcher designed 8 lessons of the WebQuest for learning activities. Before the lessons, the researcher looked for appropriate internet information to build up linkages in the researched-designed WebQuest teaching web pages to allow for students’ exploring learning activities. Small groups among students were formed to facilitate the progressing of curriculum activities. In addition to appreciating Beijing Opera in the web pages, students had to collect and synthesize information on the teaching web pages, and to make oral reports on the stage. Three Beijing Opera repertoires of “San Cha Kou,” “The Monkey King” and “The legend of the White Snake: On the West Lake” were appreciated respectively, followed by the exposition to the brief history of Beijing Opera, performing art, role categories, Beijing Opera facial design, Beijing Opera costumes, and the Beijing Opera band. Participating observation, videotaping and documents collection were used by the researcher to achieve the research purposes. The findings of this study are stated as follows: 1. The WebQuest for Beijing Opera appreciation activities no only helped students to learn more about Beijing Opera, but also, led them to actively take part in classroom activities. 2. The related problems observed in the WebQuest for Beijing Opera appreciation activities included students’ sense of difficulty for certain terminology, their lack of self-control to internet, and the curriculum’s lack of appeal for them. 3. The WebQuest for Beijing Opera appreciation activities significantly enhanced students’ Beijing Opera cognition and appreciating attitudes.