Lu, Can;
Welch, Graham F;
(2025)
Chinese Primary School Students’ Singing Behaviour by Age, Sex and Socio-economic Status.
International Journal of Music Education
10.1177/02557614251393885.
(In press).
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Abstract
Limited studies have paid attention to describing Chinese Primary school students’ singing behaviour. Consequently, to understand Chinese Primary school students’ singing behaviour, singing performances were collected from N = 1,193 children aged from 6+ to 11+, drawn from six schools in Hunan Province, China. All participants sang three songs: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Donkey (a Chinese nursery song), and Happy Birthday, with vocal products analysed against two existing rating scales: the Singing Voice Development Measure (SVDM) scale and the Vocal Pitch-Matching Development (VPMD) scale. Older participants and girls tended to have more developed singing behaviour than younger participants and boys. Urban children and children from higher-income families tended to show better singing behaviour. However, the differences by sex, geographic location and income were reduced for the oldest participants. The study might help future and current music teachers who are teaching the music curriculum in Primary schools in China to understand the likely development of Primary school students’ singing behaviour across different age groups, sex and socio-economic statuses, in order to support development in a more nuanced way which is differentiated by likely need.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Chinese Primary School Students’ Singing Behaviour by Age, Sex and Socio-economic Status |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/02557614251393885 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/02557614251393885 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2025. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | children’s singing, China, age, sex, socio-economic status |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10219501 |
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