In order to better understand the reading interests and reading habits of our students and to further enhance the role of the LRC in the promotion of reading and assistance in learning, library teachers took advantage of the Reading Month to design a questionnaire, inviting all students to participate in completing it. During the two-week completion period, they received a total of 359 questionnaires (154 from the primary school division, 201 from the middle school division, and 4 from the high school division).
A total of 11 questions were set in the questionnaire.
Except for the first and second basic information questions,
we will briefly share the results of this survey, starting with the third question.
As shown in the line chart, paper books are still the most frequently used reading medium among students, but 1% of students never read paper books. 30% of students read e-books occasionally, and 21% listen to audiobooks occasionally.
As shown in the bar chart, more than half of the students know reading methods such as intensive reading, thorough reading, speed reading, extensive reading, re-reading and skimming, but there are 1.95% of students who do not know all eight of the reading methods mentioned in the question.
5 Types of books students like to read
There were 20 types of books mentioned in this question, and the top five types that were most popular with students are detective/suspense stories, science fiction stories, adventure stories, comic strips and historical stories. The five genres that students read the least are horror stories, self-development books, prose, poetry, and drama. In the “U. Other” option, students also added favourite books related to local culture, romantic stories, psychology, and medicine.
6Through which ways do students choose their next book to read?
As shown in the bar chart, 28.97% of the students maintained the habit of reading every day. In addition, more than one-third of the students read on average 3-4 days per week.
7-2Factors that prevent students from reading daily
8If there were an arbitrary door that allowed students to enter and exit the world of books at will, which door would students choose to enter?
According to the results of high-frequency word extraction, the world that students would want to freely enter and exit is the magic world of Harry Potter. A total of 64 students mentioned this set of books. The main reasons were: ① The magical world is wonderful; ② They want to be like the protagonist in the book – attending a wizard academy and saving the world with friends by defeating Voldemort. Other books also mentioned several times were Sherlock Holmes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Little Prince and Historical Records.
9Authors whom students would most like to meet and questions they would ask them
The Top three authors students most wanted to meet are J.K. Rowling, Lu Xun and Keigo Higashino, who were mentioned 37 times, 23 times, and 18 times, respectively.
The main questions that students would want to ask J.K. Rowling are: ① Will there be a sequel to the Harry Potter series? ② Where did the inspiration for the story come from? ③ How to keep writing?
Students raised these questions to Mr. Lu Xun: ① Have you ever encountered a bottleneck when writing? How did you solve it? ② Will you know more after you have experienced more? ③ What is your view on present China and China’s future?
Students want to ask Keigo Higashino: ① Why are you so productive? ② How did you conceive the process of the cases in your mystery novels? ③ How to create a sense of suspense in a story?
10Whether students want to write their own book
It can be seen from the table that 43.73% of the respondents occasionally have the idea of creating their own books or picture books. 31.75% of the students definitely have this desire. In other words, more than 70% of the students’ creative desires were stimulated in the process of reading.
This was an open-ended question, and we attempted to categorize and generalize all the answers, as shown in the table above. The proposals of the students were very diverse, fully reflecting everyone’s yearning for a variety of reading activities and school activities. The LRC will seriously consider every suggestion and strive to bring more meaningful and interesting activities to teachers and students in the future.