A Research On Primary School Students’ Reading Materials In Western Rural Areas Under The Perspective Of Recipients’ Needs

Reading is helpful to develop students’ability of comprehension, analyzing and evaluation, which makes their feelings be influenced, thought be inspired and aesthetic ability be improved. Reading materials is the main form that the pupils learn languages and get thought. Good reading habits trained up during children’s period often becomes an important factor that influences or determines children’s ambitions, characters, intelligences, etc. However, although a large number of children’s books are published each year, the flow of these books is not very balanced, which means our publishers and sellers tend to position target market at city primary school students with a stronger purchasing power, while the phenomenon of owning reading materials of current primary school students in rural areas especially the western rural areas is worrying.In this paper, taking methods of questionnaire, interview and observation, it adopts four rural primary schools in Yangling Demonstration Zone in Shaanxi Province to investigate the status of primary school students’reading materials from three aspects of students, teachers and parents, and tries to point out existing problems and their causes, and also puts forwards ideas to solve these problems. The thesis is divided into the following sections, the first is the status and characteristics of the western rural primary school students’reading materials, including individual possession of reading materials is small; the school library can not meet the needs of students; the main source is borrowing from classmates and friends; no right to choose; effects of good use and quality is not optimistic. Second, it analyzes the problems in reading materials of primary and secondary school students in western rural areas:the problems of public welfare sources; the problems of commercial channels sources; problems of content and little extra-curricular reading time. Third, it comes to following conclusions:economical limitation is dominant factor; overpricing of reading materials; sales channel is not smooth; demand preferences are influenced by externals largely; there is a deviation in the needs of the recipients; extracurricular reading is time is little. Finally, targeted solutions ideas:for nonprofit sources, to strengthen funding strengthen the management and services, develop the educational services of the Rural Library and book crossing activities; for channel sources, to develop differentiated services and improve the sales channels; for the existing problems of the contents, to simultaneously increase governance efforts and strengthen the content choices; to play the guiding role of teachers in the selection of reading materials.