| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-6页 |
| 内容提要 | 第6-8页 |
| Table of Contents | 第8-11页 |
| List of Tables | 第11-12页 |
| List of Figures | 第12-13页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-19页 |
| ·Background to the study | 第14-16页 |
| ·Aims and objectives | 第16-17页 |
| ·Structure of the thesis | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第19-53页 |
| ·Task-based language learning and teaching | 第19-41页 |
| ·Definitions of tasks | 第19-23页 |
| ·Rationale for the task-based approach | 第23-25页 |
| ·The framework and components of TBL | 第25-34页 |
| ·Advantages of task-based learning | 第34-37页 |
| ·Types of tasks | 第37-41页 |
| ·Theories of reading | 第41-53页 |
| ·Code-breaking theory | 第42-43页 |
| ·The bottom-up and top-down theories | 第43-46页 |
| ·Interactive theory | 第46-48页 |
| ·Schema theory | 第48-49页 |
| ·Reading comprehension skills | 第49-51页 |
| ·Purposes in second language reading | 第51-53页 |
| Chapter Three Reading Problems and Solutions | 第53-78页 |
| ·Problems in high school English reading | 第53-62页 |
| ·Lack of prior knowledge | 第53-54页 |
| ·Vocabulary problems | 第54-56页 |
| ·Problems with reading skills | 第56-59页 |
| ·Problems with reading rate | 第59-60页 |
| ·Problems with reading strategies | 第60-62页 |
| ·Designing tasks based on the reading problems | 第62-78页 |
| ·A task to solve the prior knowledge problem | 第63-65页 |
| ·A task to solve the vocabulary problem | 第65-70页 |
| ·A task to solve reading skill problem | 第70-73页 |
| ·A task to solve reading rate problem | 第73-75页 |
| ·A task to solve the reading strategy problem | 第75-78页 |
| Chapter Four Research Design | 第78-84页 |
| ·Subjects | 第79页 |
| ·The experimental procedure | 第79-80页 |
| ·Data collecting procedure | 第80-83页 |
| ·Data analyzing procedure | 第83-84页 |
| Chapter Five Results and Discussion | 第84-101页 |
| ·Comparison on the pre-test | 第84-85页 |
| ·Comparison on reading rate of the pre-test | 第85-86页 |
| ·Comparison means of the two groups in the post-test | 第86-92页 |
| ·Comparison on total means | 第87-88页 |
| ·Comparison on reading rate | 第88-89页 |
| ·Comparison on prior knowledge | 第89-90页 |
| ·Comparison on vocabulary | 第90-91页 |
| ·Comparison on reading skills | 第91-92页 |
| ·Correlations within each group in the post-test | 第92-94页 |
| ·Questionnaire on TBL preference | 第94-97页 |
| ·Implications of the study | 第97-100页 |
| ·Limitations of the study | 第100-101页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第101-106页 |
| ·Summary of the study | 第101-104页 |
| ·Concluding remarks | 第104-106页 |
| References | 第106-111页 |
| Appendixes | 第111-145页 |
| Appendix A | 第111-112页 |
| Appendix B | 第112-113页 |
| Appendix C | 第113-114页 |
| Appendix D | 第114-116页 |
| Appendix E | 第116-117页 |
| Appendix F | 第117-131页 |
| Appendix G | 第131-144页 |
| Appendix H | 第144-145页 |
