A Study on Children’s Interest towards Reading - a Questionnaire-Based Survey

Abstract

In a society dominated by mass-media, which offers many temptations and seizes and reorients young people’s interests, reading has lost ground. The importance given to reading has clearly diminished, as it is no longer favoured by our pupils. This represents a real problem, especially for the teachers from the pre-university education system, who sometimes feel powerless when facing the challenges of the contemporary world and who try by various methods to entice pupils to read and to get in contact with the magical world of reading. The purpose of this research is to investigate the way in which reading is viewed by pupils and to find the way to find the educational path that entice them to read. The study is based on a questionnaire survey conducted to determine the interested reading factors.