Research On The Current Situation Of Extracurricular Reading Of Junior High School Students In Henan Province

Extra-curricular reading plays an effective way in cultivating students' humanistic quality and Chinese accomplishment. However, currently the status of junior high school students' extracurricular reading is not optimistic. On the one hand, it is reflected from the students' normal written expression that junior high school students' personal expression ability is weak. On the other hand, the arrangement of students' spare time is subject to the impact of information and internet. The burden of schoolwork makes many students struggling to cope with the homework and examination. There is little time for them to read extra-curricular books Urban and rural students in the family and school conditions are different. This paper mainly study and analysis the existence of common problems and differences of urban and rural junior high school students in extra-curricular reading from the two dimensions of urban and rural areas. Some suggestions for improvement of reading are given based on the general character and the difference in order to promote the teaching and guidance of junior high school students extracurricular reading.This study used a questionnaire survey method,it randomly selected 700 students in 2 junior middle schools in the city of Luoyang as research subjects. The comparison of family reading condition, the extracurricular reading plan, the extracurricular reading interest, the extracurricular reading behavior, the instructions of extracurricular from teacher and so on in the urban and rural schools are discussed.Through the analysis of the survey data, it is concluded that the common features of the urban and rural junior high school students' Extracurricular Reading exists in :1.Urban and rural junior high school students are obviously insufficient in extracurricular reading. Weekly reading time are concentrated in less than 1 hour, exam oriented education junior high school students focus all finite time repeated questions and quizzes, lacking of extracurricular reading input. 2. Urban and rural junior high school students don't have a good plan of extra-curricular reading. The reading plan lacks a rational and long- term plan. Reading behavior is quite arbitrary. 3.Mobile phone and network become the main media of the urban and rural junior high school students' extracurricular reading. Survey data shows that 70% of the students use a mobile phone or a computer to read every week. This need to strengthen guidance and to teach students to use the appropriate network media to get information. 4.Extracurricular reading content are mostly literary books. Students' reading categories are limited, to be fully developed, students must expand the scope and types of reading. 5. Extra-curricular reading time are impacted by the network and television. In extra time, the proportion of rural junior middle school students and urban junior high school students like watching TV and Internet access is basically the same, reaching more than 50%. The proportion of students who enjoy reading is relatively low.The difference between urban and rural junior high school students after class reading exists in : 1.Urban students' family reading background is better, the parents' education degree is higher. If the parents of students have experienced higher education, the children of these families tend to have better reading habits, more extensive reading and more lasting reading time than the children with low educational level. 2.Urban students and rural students have different learning pressure and learning environment,which affects the extra-curricular reading. Learning competition of city students is fierce and the township students generally lack of good education, not forming a good habit of reading. 3. The reading guidance of township teachers is not enough, what's more the students lack of Library resources. 4. Rural junior middle school students' subjective reading attitude is not as good as the urban junior high school students', urban junior high school students are more like reading, because they have better family education and public reading resources.According to the conclusions drawn from the research, in order to improve the junior high school students' reading situation, put forward the following recommendations: the construction of rural public library, construction of the class book corner, optimizing students' digital reading tools and content, improving the reading guidance of rural teachers and parents, strengthening teacher and peer reading communications and guidance, to change urban and rural parents' ideas to pay more attention to the students' extracurricular reading etc.. Students' better ability to read cann't be separated from the joint efforts of families, schools and governments.