Interests of pupils of the third and fourth grade of the high school for reading

Abstract

The culture of reading, and interests of students in the school reading, changes from generation to generation. We have opted for gymnasium students of the third and fourth grade because we regard them as active readers with developed reading tastes and habits. Students who have home libraries and are surrounded by books, and whose parents have a higher level of education, read more on average than those who have no books at home and live in a less developed cultural and economic environment. Information about student literary interests is set as a methodological requirement and growing scientific attention is paid to it. The paper analyses the research findings on reading interests of students of the third and fourth grade of the general secondary education in schools in the City of East Sarajevo. All data should indicate: the level of reading culture that has been achieved; whether students regularly read the required reading and works outside the compulsory programme; which topics they are interested in; which works they prefer to read; and whether there are differences in interests depending on the gender of students, their academic achievements, and family and socioeconomic opportunities. The method of systematic empirical non-experimental research was applied.