WRITING THE MORIN KHUUR GUIDEBOOK FOR TEACHING FIRST YEAR STUDENTS AT BAOTOU INSTITUTE OF VOCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
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The Morin Khuur, an iconic instrument of Mongolian culture, embodies the spiritual beliefs, nomadic traditions, and storytelling heritage of the region. This research focuses on developing a guidebook to help first-year students at Baotou Institute of Vocational Technology master its techniques while understanding its deep cultural and religious significance. The purpose of this study is: (1) To Study the Morin khuur music. (2) To construct Morin khuur guidebook for first year students at Baotou Institute of Vocational Technology. (3) To experiment teaching Morin khuur guidebook to teach students in experimental group. (4) To evaluate the effectiveness teaching by using of the Morin khuur music. This study adopts a mixed research method, combining qualitative research with quantitative research. The subjects of the study were 40 first-year students majoring in musicology in Baotou Vocational and Technical College. Through targeted sampling method, a total of 10 instrumental students were taken as samples from 40 first-year students majoring in Morin khuur. Through interviews with three key informants, the researcher developed a Morin khuur instruction manual, which was used as the basis for a teaching experiment with the students. The researchers observed student performance before and after the experiment and verified the effectiveness of the instruction manual by analysing data from formative, summative and play tests. Half of the students achieved ‘very good’ results. The research findings were: (1) The Morin khuur has unique cultural heritage characteristics in terms of melody, tune and performance techniques. It has unique characteristics in terms of playing techniques; (2) The constructed instructional guidebook was validated by experts with an average IOC value of 0.7, indicating its suitability for instructional use. The guidebook is divided into seven sections. It includes information on fundamentals, preparatory exercises, basic exercises, improvement exercises, overtone playing, Mongolian playing methods, and solo pieces to help teachers better plan and implement their teaching. Helps teachers to better plan activities for teaching the Morin khuur; (3) During the 16-week implementation of the manual, the students' playing ability was gradually improved. (4) The average score of the formative test was 79.35 points; the average score of the summative test was 84.10 points. The mean score on the performance test was 4.47 out of 5, indicating that the majority of the students performed well, validating the effectiveness of the Morin khuur guidebook in teaching students.
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