The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of regional dance teaching innovation and students' local cultural identity, through a questionnaire sent to college students. 432 valid questionnaires were collected, and Pearson product-difference correlation and regression analyses were conducted on the returned data. T-tests and F-tests were applied to different genders, different grades, different regions and different family incomes respectively. The results showed that the four dimensions of Lingnan dance teaching innovation had a positive influence on the respondents' local cultural identity (p<0.05 for the four dimensions) and explained 80.8% of the factors influencing the respondents' local cultural identity, indicating that Lingnan dance teaching innovation had a significant positive influence on the students' local culture, but the respondents' different genders, different grades, different regions and different There was no effect of family income on local cultural identity.

Fan Haiyan, Huang Wei. Research on the Effect of Regional Dance Teaching Innovation on Students' Local Cultural Identity. Frontiers in Educational Research (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 15: 95-100. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2023.061513.

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