2018.1.31 扇贝新闻精选（7/10）

Chinese students do not read enough: Study

调查显示，我国学生阅读量不足

Chinese children are not spending enough time reading, which is related to their parents' reading habits, research shows.


　　★ be related to：与…有关

A study by the China Children and Teenagers' Fund and TAL Education Group found that 47 percent of children under the age of 12 spend less than 30 minutes a day reading, and only 12 percent spend more than an hour.


　　★ China Children and Teenagers' Fund：中国儿童少年基金会

The China Parent-Child Co-Reading Report 2017, which was released on Tuesday, also found that more than 35 percent of children whose parents read more than two hours a day formed the same habits, compared with only 1 percent whose parents read less than half an hour.


　　★ The China Parent-Child Co-Reading Report 2017：《2017中国家庭亲子共读调研报告》

The findings are based on a month-long study of 8,466 parents of children under the age 12, who responded to questionnaires released via the websites, apps and WeChat accounts of education websites under the TAL Education Group. Respondents were spread across urban and rural areas in the 31 provinces and regions on the Chinese mainland.



The study said the time parents spend with their children drops dramatically when children reach 3 – with the percentage of parents spending over seven hours a day with their children dropping from 37 percent to 11 percent.


　　★ drops dramatically：显著下降，急剧下降

More than 40 percent of parents believe it is important to accompany their children while reading, but few have taken action to do so, it said.



In addition to improving children's language ability, Bian Yufang, director of Mental Health and Education Institute affiliated with Beijing Normal University, said reading helps with children's information acquisition and it is also a diversion.


　　★ director of Mental Health and Education Institute：心理健康与教育研究所所长

　　★ affiliated with：与...附属，与...结合，和...来往，加入

　　★ Beijing Normal University：北京师范大学

"In terms of education on sex and death, reading could achieve better results than school education," she said.


　　★ in terms of 在...方面，就...而言

Based on the research findings, Zhu Xisheng, secretary-general of China Children and Teenagers' Fund, said in the next five years the fund and TAL Education Group will work to build more platforms for parent-child co-reading.


　　★ China Children and Teenagers' Fund：中国儿童少年基金会

"The platform will be based in communities and we also will organize activities to boost reading among parents and children," he said.



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