I tried to examine the property of Children reader in this age through their reading propensity. Based on the questionnaire done for 515 children residing in large cities of Korea, I searched some macroscopic and microscopic reading propensity. In ter...
I tried to examine the property of Children reader in this age through their reading propensity. Based on the questionnaire done for 515 children residing in large cities of Korea, I searched some macroscopic and microscopic reading propensity. In terms of macroscopic reading propensity, it turned out that Children readers in Korea usually enjoy reading books, thinking that reading would be fruitful to them. Reading books for desire of knowledge and fun, Children readers generally select books by themselves. Reading factual or fantastic story most, they also read old story, scientific or historic story frequently. Recently, they are touched mainly by learning cartoon or fantastic fairy tales. As microscopic reading propensity, I searched impression propensity of the fantastic fairy tales, 『Charlie and chocolate factory』. The 2nd highest impression propensity of children reader in this book is the pleasure of experiencing the internal affair in the text. The 2nd factor was the pleasure to search the meaning or lesson given to readers by text or reading text. The pleasures are composed of pleasure to analyze the character of cast, pleasure to imagine the background, pleasure to feel catharsis with happy ending. In order to systematically understand children readers, more profound discussion would be required such as comparatively researching reading propensity of diverse readers classes and ideal readers, researching reading propensity as per property like genre, form or contents of text and what property the macroscopic and microscopic reading propensity of adolescent readers show in accordance with the context of individual reader.