| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-18页 |
| ·General description of the thesis | 第13-14页 |
| ·Need for the study | 第14-16页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第16-17页 |
| ·Overall structure of the thesis | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第18-40页 |
| ·Conceptual definitions of key terms | 第18-23页 |
| ·Cohesion and coherence | 第18-20页 |
| ·Conjunction and cohesion | 第20-22页 |
| ·Linking adverbials | 第22-23页 |
| ·Theoretical rationale | 第23-29页 |
| ·Conjunction and its categorization | 第23-26页 |
| ·Traditional grammar | 第23-25页 |
| ·Functional grammar | 第25-26页 |
| ·Register and conjunction | 第26-28页 |
| ·Contrastive interlanguage analysis | 第28-29页 |
| ·Related studies on linking adverbials | 第29-40页 |
| ·Theoretical approaches to linking adverbials | 第29-34页 |
| ·Semantic classifications and functional classifications | 第30-33页 |
| ·Classification of linking adverbials in the present study | 第33-34页 |
| ·Related empirical studies | 第34-40页 |
| ·Cross-language empirical studies on linking adverbials | 第35-39页 |
| ·Critical evaluation of previous cross-language studies | 第39-40页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第40-51页 |
| ·Research questions | 第40页 |
| ·Research design | 第40-51页 |
| ·Data selection | 第40-47页 |
| ·Description of the two corpora | 第41-42页 |
| ·Selections from the corpora | 第42-44页 |
| ·Retrieving the data | 第44-47页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第47-51页 |
| ·Analyzing all the data | 第47-49页 |
| ·Comparison between corpora | 第49-50页 |
| ·Comparison between learners of different proficiency | 第50-51页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第51-66页 |
| ·Comparison between Chinese EFL learners and native English writer.. | 第51-61页 |
| ·Overall frequencies | 第51-53页 |
| ·Distribution of semantic types of adverbial conjuncts | 第53-56页 |
| ·Ten most frequently used linking adverbials | 第56-58页 |
| ·Overuse and underuse of linking adverbials | 第58-61页 |
| ·Comparison between high-achievers and low-achievers | 第61-66页 |
| ·Correlation between the learners’ use of linking adverbials and their writing proficiency | 第61-62页 |
| ·Stylistic analysis of the use of linking adverbials between high-achievers and low-achievers | 第62-66页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第66-70页 |
| ·Major findings | 第66-67页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications | 第67-68页 |
| ·Limitations of the study | 第68-70页 |
| References | 第70-76页 |
