A Survey Of Students’ Extracurricular Reading Of English In Wuhan No.2 Junior High School

Today in the 21 stcentury, Chine has a closer relationship with other countries in the world. Consequently, English has become a very important ability for people. Reading, along with listening, speaking, writing, as a significant part in English learning, definitely plays a vital role in improving student’s English ability. However, at present, the society, teachers,parents, and even students don’t have a clear understanding of English extracurricular reading,so that it will gradually make students lose interest in English learning and desire for new knowledge,which will have a negative effect on students’ development. As is known to all, the stage of junior middle school is an important period for students to shape themselves. It is necessary for students to emphasize the improvement of reading comprehension and English ability.On the basis of careful reading about the related research, the thesis makes a survey with a questionnaire and interviews to study the extracurricular reading situation in Wuhan No.2Junior High School. The questionnaire mainly focuses on six topics: students’ attitudes towards extracurricular reading, choices of extracurricular reading materials, purposes of reading, students’ reading strategies, and teachers’ role in students’ extracurricular reading and students’ impediments in reading. Through the questionnaire, the research gets the result that general situation is not good. There are some reading problems with junior students in Wuhan NO.2 Junior High School, such as the narrow area of reading, limits in choosing materials, the lack of professional guidance from teachers. In addition, because of teaching pressure,teachers don’t play an active role in guiding students. In accordance with the statistics, the author proposes some suggestions on how to solve the problem from the perspectives of teachers, parents and students. The teachers should enrich reading themselves so that they can set a good example to encourage students to read. Teachers are also supposed to emphasize the role of extracurricular reading in students’ well-rounded development and abandon the concept that scores can evaluate everything. Parents should try their best to provide children with suitable reading environment. Students, as the most significant part in the process shouldtake their initiatives to read more, choose materials wisely, read more, think independently and grow up through reading.Through the investigation of the junior students in Wuhan NO.2 Middle School, the research finds that the general situation of English extracurricular reading is not good. Both teachers and parents are suggested to shoulder their own responsibility to improve it. Also,they should pay more attention to the problems in students’ extracurricular reading and make joint efforts to improve the current situation.