Effects of Multiculturalism: Piano teaching in Chinese Universities

Developing Business CAT Teaching System and Course for Chinese Universities

This paper proposes that business CAT be introduced as the reform of a course in Chinese universities. Firstly, the authors describe the conceptual framework and design of business CAT course and textbook, the newly developed “Computer-Aided Business Translation Teaching System (Business CAT), with a focus on learner translation training and teacher management platforms. Secondly, the authors d...

A Reflection on Teaching, Multiculturalism, and Access

Construction of WeChat-based Piano Teaching Platform

The development of network technology brings wider imaginary space for teaching techniques reforms. The research on application of WeChat as the most popular social information platform in classroom teaching is receiving increasingly more attention. This paper discusses the establishment of WeChat-based piano teaching communication platform. WeChat platform provides students with creation, comm...

The Development of Chinese Piano Music

Many Chinese pianists, Lang Lang and Yun-di Li for example, received international recognition in recent years. When study the history of piano study and composing in China, it is not surprising that the history of Chinese piano music has gone through specific periods which strongly influenced compositional activities. This article is aimed to display cultural and political aspects that are beh...

Potential Use of Inertial Measurement Sensors for Piano Teaching Systems: Motion Analysis of Piano Playing Patterns

Recent piano teaching systems mainly rely on MIDI data. However, MIDI data contains only little information about the student‘s movement. Therefore, additional data channels can potentially be valuable for future piano teaching systems. In this paper we have examined the question, if inertial measurement sensors attached to the piano student‘s arm can provide information that could be relevant ...