Investigation On Reading Ability Of Junior Middle School Students In Impoverished Area And Research On The Ways To Deal With The Situation

Improving the reading ability is the main task of Chinese teaching, and reading ability occupies a great deal in Their Chinese. The "fewer, slower, poorer and more costly" has not been brought under permanent control in reading teaching at present. The general reading ability of the students still falls far short of what is required, especially that of the students in poor area has become the main factor which prevent them from developing fully. this thesis is an investigation on reading ability which based on the Junior â…¢ students in TongWei County, known nationwide for its poverty, with testing, questionnaire, surveying and individual analysing. the related cause has been analysed and proper ways have been put up.The investigation shows: reading ability of the students in junior middle schools in TongWei County is generally far behind. And there is obvious gap between the students in country-side and those in town in following ways: reading speed, vocabulary, mental percepting, appreciating, proficiency in using what they learned transitively and creative thinking.The following factors account for the low reading ability :(1) teaching factors: old teaching method, lacking of self-guided studing and not enough reading after class. (2) non-intellectual factors: no habit of reading, no great interest in reading Chinese, not attentively when they are reading in class, no strong will. (3) enviromental factors: the reading enviroment at home is bad and that at school and of society is not good enough.Ways have been put up to deal with the situation mentioned above in a big way: devoting much attention to the reading and accumulating in primary school, arousing the interest of the students in reading, lay stress on developing the habit of reading; showing the students the reading method and technique; creating student-centered reading teaching; training their perceptivity and thinking; giving elective courses, making a good job of reading after class; guiding them to bring the advantage of regional culture into full play, reading more after class; changing the idea of reading of the whole society to form a good atmosphere.In order to get rid of the difficult situation of reading in poor area and developing the reading habit of the students, TongWei No. â…  middle school, where the author works, is carrying out "Three-course-to-one"(active reading, elective reading, reading activities) experiment, and a lot has been achieved by stages.