ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to identify the way college applied piano instructors teach practice strategies to their students. The participants were 9 college applied piano instructors teaching at universities in Busan-Gyeongnam area. 18 field notes were collected through observations of instructors` piano lessons(2 times each). The results show that the participant instructors check student`s practice outcomes through watching and listening to student`s performance and did not check how the students practiced. None of the instructors had the students keep a practice diary as well as a reflection log, and rarely asked about practice process. Among three types of mental representations for music performance(Lehmann & Ericsson, 1997; Woody, 1999), the participant instructors focused on goal imaging and motor production rather than self-monitoring, and they rarely gave structured practice strategies to their students at the end of the lessons.

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