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MA Voice Pedagogy Student To Present At PAVA Symposium

Thursday 18th August 2022

We’d like to wish a huge congratulations to MA student Fernando Zimmermann, who will be presenting at the Pan American Vocology Association‘s Hybrid Symposium this week!
Fernando will be presenting ‘Can A Self-Talk Instructional Aid Assist in the Development of Singing Student Self-Efficacy?’.
 
The aim of this study was to verify if there were changes on perceived self–efficacy after using the instructional self–talk – named Internal Command (IC) in this study – protocol.
If you are interested in conducting globally-recognised research, our MA Voice Pedagogy may be the right path for you.

Fernando Zimmermann

Fernando Zimmermann is an MA Voice Pedagogy student at the Voice Study Center and University of Wales Trinity Saint David....


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