Music students' perceptions toward Aural training courses at UiTM / Eva Jessesca Stephen

The purpose of this study is to find out music students' perceptions toward Aural training courses at UiTM. The sample for this study was degree music students from the Faculty of Music, UiTM Shah Alam of various programmes and semester. The questionnaire was created through Google form and then was distributed through Whatsapp messenger application. Specifically, this study looked at three elements which were to describe music students' perception toward the importance, usefulness, difficulties of the Aural skills courses at UiTM as well as the sort of preferred help they would have liked to receive. The research was conducted at the Faculty of Music, University Teknologi Mara, Shah Alam. The sample for this study are degree students from the Bachelor of Music Education (MU220), Bachelor of Music Composition (MU221), Bachelor of Music Performance (MU222) and Bachelor of Music Business (MU223) programmes regardless of semester or year of study. The total respondents for this study were 100 music students in the degree programme which comprised of 51 males and 49 females. The overall finding showed that respondents strongly agree that Aural skills courses are important, usefulness for develop sense of hearing. Regarding the difficulties section, the findings showed that respondents are agree that they actually have difficulty in sightsinging and harmonic dictation. Lastly, the respondent's reported that they prefer having a software that would help them improve their Aural skills.