A Research On The Reading Of Leisure Reading Matter In Middle School Students

Since the last ten years of the passing century, huge attention has been paid to middle school students' reading actuality out of class, and a great many effective strategies have been proposed. However, there is a lack of systematic summary or conclusion to students' non-classical literature reading out of class. Therefore the guidance under which students read non-classical literature works is in great need. Here, in this study, the author is trying to bring forward the concept of "Leisure reading matter". Through the survey about students' out-of-class reading conducted by the author in the city of Changde, Hunan Province, the city of Changsha, Hunan Province, and the city of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, the author makes an analysis about the state of students' out-of-class reading, suggesting the essential attitudes that our adults and teachers should hold towards students' leisure reading matter. Meanwhile, the author put forward his own opinion that leisure reading matter is a beneficial supplement of students' out-of-class reading;students of different grades should be allowed by schools and societies to read different leisure reading matter to absorb different nutrition, keeping their own natural pursuits at a certain stage.The present study is about leisure reading matter and this thesis is composed of four chapters besides the introduction and the conclusion.The introduction introduces the students' reading actuality, and explains the very topic of this study.Chapter One is about the concept of "Leisure reading matter ", elucidated from the following three parts: the association between "leisure" and "light";the reason why we don't adopt the concept of "light reading " or "leisure literature";the difference between the reading of leisure reading matter and leisure reading, which is presented by somescholars. The author also advanced the three characteristics of leisure reading matter, time, gradualness, and complexity.Chapter Two states the reason why we should do the research about the requirement of leisure reading for middle school students. It is demonstrated from the following four parts: Chinese students' reading actuality nowadays and the actuality of Chinese literature reading teaching in China;the requirement of new curriculum for literature reading to middle school students;the reading activities of modern celebrities and successful people;the reference from abroad and the research result of the learners in foreign countries.Chapter Three is devoted to the explanation of actuality of students' reading of leisure reading matter, classifying their reading matter, analyzing the reason why they are so fond of these works and the influence of the works to them.Chapter Four proposes the attitude we should hold towards leisure reading matter.And the conclusion summarizes the author's views about leisure reading matter.