Yaxin Zhang

Thesis

Thesis Title & Description

Instrumental Teachers' Support: How to Deal with Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) among Chinese Adolescent Students? (Provisional Title)

• Supervisors: Dr Naomi Norton, Dr Daniel March, Dr Andrea Schiavio

The thesis focuses on specific pathways that Chinese instrumental teachers use in order to gain deeper insights into Music Performance Anxiety (MPA) according to existing academic research and how they transmit or develop relative knowledge and then apply it in music lessons. In addition, it will discuss the effective strategies that music educators utilise for supporting adolescent students in managing MPA based on teachers’ self-reflection and feedback from pupils. This project aims to fill the gap in the association between music teachers’ support and MPA coping methods. It might also be beneficial to offer approaches that music teachers are able to apply to get related knowledge about MPA and how to transmit it to students in music teaching lessons. Furthermore, it possibly contributes to in-service and pre-service instrumental teachers collecting methods for addressing MPA and to the development of Chinese music education.