| Acknowledgments | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract (Chinese) | 第8-9页 |
| Chapter One: Incidental Vocabulary Learning | 第9-29页 |
| ·Introduction | 第9-10页 |
| ·The Meaning of the Concept | 第10-12页 |
| ·The Origin of Incidental Vocabulary Learning | 第12-14页 |
| ·The Importance of Incidental Vocabulary Learning | 第14-16页 |
| ·The Problems of Incidental Vocabulary Learning | 第16-19页 |
| ·The Ways to Promote Incidental Vocabulary Learning | 第19-27页 |
| ·Expert Skills of Guessing from Context | 第21-22页 |
| ·Text Modifications | 第22-25页 |
| ·Text-based Tasks | 第25-27页 |
| ·The Meaning of Incidental Vocabulary Learning in the Present Experiment | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter Two: Cognitive Considerations in Vocabulary Learning | 第29-40页 |
| ·Short-term and Long-term Memory | 第29-30页 |
| ·The Organization of Mental Lexicon | 第30-31页 |
| ·Some Theories about Forgetting | 第31-32页 |
| ·Some Constructs about Vocabulary Learning | 第32-40页 |
| ·Schmidt and Noticing | 第33-35页 |
| ·Depth-of-Processing Hypothesis | 第35-37页 |
| ·Task-induced Involvement Hypothesis | 第37-40页 |
| Chapter Three: The Experiment | 第40-54页 |
| ·Method | 第40-49页 |
| ·Aim | 第40页 |
| ·Reading Text and Target Words | 第40-43页 |
| ·What Knowledge of Vocabulary Is Tested | 第43-45页 |
| ·Subjects | 第45页 |
| ·Tasks | 第45-46页 |
| ·Hypothesis | 第46-47页 |
| ·Procedure and Tests | 第47-48页 |
| ·Scoring | 第48-49页 |
| ·Results | 第49-54页 |
| Chapter Four: Discussion and Conclusion | 第54-61页 |
| ·Discussion | 第54-58页 |
| ·The Effects of Glossing | 第54-56页 |
| ·The Need of Repeated Exposures to the New Words | 第56-57页 |
| ·The Need of Revision and Recycling | 第57-58页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第58-61页 |
| ·The Conclusion of the Present Study | 第58-59页 |
| ·The Implications of the study for L2 Vocabulary Learning | 第59页 |
| ·The Limitations of the Study and Future Research | 第59-61页 |
| Notes | 第61-65页 |
| References | 第65-71页 |
| Appendices | 第71-84页 |
| Appendix 1 Text | 第71-74页 |
| Appendix 2 Text-based Tasks | 第74-78页 |
| Appendix 3 Test Paper | 第78-81页 |
| Appendix 4 Choosing Target Words | 第81-84页 |