课外阅读不仅能开阔学生的视野,拓展学生的知识面,还可以培养学生的自学能力和阅读能力,对于提高学生的阅读和写作水平,提升其人文素养起着无可替代的推动作用。但现实是由于受各种因素的影响,学生的课外阅读情况不尽如人意,特别是西部农村初中学生课外阅读现状更令人担忧。因此,立足于西部农村初中学生,客观分析了农村初中学生课外阅读的现状,探讨了改进对策。 Outside reading can not only broaden students’ horizons, expand students’ knowledge, but also develop students’ self-learning ability and reading ability. It plays an irreplaceable role in promoting students’ reading and writing levels and improving their humanistic qualities. However, the reality is that due to various factors, students’ reading outside the classroom is not satisfactory, especially the status of off-class reading of rural junior middle school students in western China is even more worrying. Therefore, basing on junior middle school students in rural areas in the west, the current situation of extracurricular reading in rural junior high school students was analyzed objectively, and the improvement countermeasures were discussed.