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Use of Reflective Practice in Developing Students’ Listening and
Ensemble Performing Skills in Guitar Ensemble Co-Curricular Activity

Similarly, Lucas wrote the following positive and
glowing comment:

…feel happy about the improvement that I have
achieved… Over the past few weeks, I have grown
my nails to play the soprano with a better sound
and also trained my fingers to press the high
tension strings.
[Journal 04, 1 August 2014]

From the statements above, it is significant to know that
through reflective practice, these members were again
more aware of the progress they were making and how
they felt about it.
Impact o f Instructor’s Feedback
With the introduction of the instructor’s feedback, we were
interested to find out what kind of impact or effect it had
on the members’ musical learning. The following was from
one of the entries made by John:

…I also wrote that I didn’t know how to play louder… Mr Tan took that into
consideration and he told me to use more force and… that’s why I can play
much louder (today)…
[Reflective dialogue 02, 18 July 2014]

We managed to find a similar entry from Matthew:

…the feedback is very helpful to the way we learn… we’re telling him (Mr
Tan) about our problems and he writes back on how we can help ourselves
instead of relying on him…
[Reflective Dialogue 04, 1 August 2014]
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