Analysis Of Foreign Research On Children's Attention To Television And Production Of Educational TV Programs

More and more children all over the world have access to TV programs with the development of economy and technology. Children living in the developed countries become television consumers in their early childhood, being provided with a large variety of programs to choose from. China, though being a developing country, has a great number of TV possessors, and the number of children who are able to watch television programs is increasing rapidly. Accordingly, children's TV programs have been produced to meet their needs. However it should come first that the educational TV program carries its educational function and convey knowledge. The author thinks that children, young as they are, have different levels of cognitive skills and they can make their own choices. The author believes that children are active in the relationship between educational TV programs and their visual attention to the television. Taking children's cognitive skills into account, we should put it in the first place that the content of TV programs must be understood pretty well by children and the difficult level of the content must be suitable for children's cognitive skills. TV programs are subordinate to the content. We can't produce successful educational TV programs without integrating the contents and their formal features. Focusing on children's attention to television, the paper analyses foreign research on the influence of educational TV programs to children, the content and the apt difficult level of educational TV programs, the formal features of educational TV programs and attention inertia.