| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-6页 |
| CURRICULUM VITAE | 第6-8页 |
| PUBLISHED AND ACCPETED PAPERS | 第8-10页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第10-14页 |
| CONTENTS | 第14-18页 |
| LIST OF TABLES | 第18-19页 |
| LIST OF FIGURES | 第19-20页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第20-29页 |
| ·Research orientation | 第20页 |
| ·Target of research | 第20-21页 |
| ·Rationale and research questions | 第21-25页 |
| ·Definitions of key terms | 第25-27页 |
| ·Bilingual | 第25页 |
| ·L2 vocabulary knowledge | 第25-26页 |
| ·Conceptual and semantic processing | 第26-27页 |
| ·Working memory capacity | 第27页 |
| ·Organisation of the thesis | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第29-69页 |
| ·The bilingual mental lexicon | 第29-38页 |
| ·Organisation of mental lexicon | 第30-32页 |
| ·Views of the relations between the L1 and the L2 mental lexicon | 第32-38页 |
| ·Independency of the L1 and the L2 mental lexicon | 第33-34页 |
| ·Interdependency of the L1 and the L2 mental lexicon | 第34-37页 |
| ·Summary | 第37-38页 |
| ·The revised hierarchical model | 第38-44页 |
| ·Evidence in support of the revised hierarchical model | 第39-41页 |
| ·Evidence challenging the revised hierarchical model | 第41-43页 |
| ·Evidence against the revised hierarchical model | 第43-44页 |
| ·Summary | 第44页 |
| ·Two experimental tasks in studies of mental lexicon | 第44-49页 |
| ·The primed lexical decision task and its confounding processes | 第44-47页 |
| ·Word association tasks and major findings | 第47-48页 |
| ·Summary | 第48-49页 |
| ·Vocabulary knowledge and measures | 第49-56页 |
| ·Breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge | 第49-51页 |
| ·Measures of vocabulary knowledge | 第51-56页 |
| ·Summary | 第56页 |
| ·Working memory | 第56-69页 |
| ·Baddeley & Hitch's working memory model | 第57-58页 |
| ·Working memory and the central executive | 第58-60页 |
| ·Working memory capacity and language processing | 第60-62页 |
| ·Measures and construct of working memory | 第62-68页 |
| ·Measures of working memory | 第62-65页 |
| ·Unitary versus multicomponential system of working memory | 第65-68页 |
| ·Summary | 第68-69页 |
| Chapter 3 Central Ideas | 第69-94页 |
| ·Bilingual lexical access | 第70-79页 |
| ·Lexical access in monolingual literature | 第70-72页 |
| ·Central issues of bilingual lexical access | 第72-79页 |
| ·L2 lexical competence and the goal of L2 lexical development | 第79-91页 |
| ·Proposals of lexical competence in the existing literature | 第79-83页 |
| ·A tri-component framework of L2 lexical competence | 第83-90页 |
| ·The goal of L2 lexical development | 第90-91页 |
| ·A developmental view of bilingual processing | 第91-92页 |
| ·Summary | 第92-94页 |
| Chapter 4 Effects of L2 Vocabulary Knowledge | 第94-130页 |
| ·Experiment 1 | 第94-109页 |
| ·Hypotheses and predictions | 第94-95页 |
| ·Method | 第95-101页 |
| ·Subjects | 第96页 |
| ·Materials | 第96-99页 |
| ·Procedure | 第99-101页 |
| ·Results | 第101-105页 |
| ·Discussion | 第105-109页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第109页 |
| ·Experiment 2 | 第109-129页 |
| ·Hypotheses and predictions | 第110-111页 |
| ·Method | 第111-120页 |
| ·Subjects | 第111-112页 |
| ·Materials and procedure | 第112-113页 |
| ·Classifications | 第113-120页 |
| ·Results | 第120-125页 |
| ·Discussion | 第125-129页 |
| ·Summary | 第129-130页 |
| Chapter 5 Effects of Working Memory Capacity | 第130-152页 |
| ·Research questions | 第131-132页 |
| ·Method | 第132-136页 |
| ·Subjects | 第132-133页 |
| ·Materials and procedure | 第133-136页 |
| ·Analyses and results | 第136-145页 |
| ·ANOVA results | 第137-144页 |
| ·Results of the three-way ANOVA with repeated measures | 第138-141页 |
| ·Results of the two-way ANOVA with repeated measures for the high group | 第141-143页 |
| ·Results of the two-way ANOVA with repeated measures for the low group | 第143-144页 |
| ·Correlation analyses | 第144-145页 |
| ·Discussion | 第145-150页 |
| ·Working memory capacity, processing in a second language and L2 vocabulary knowledge | 第146-150页 |
| ·Working memory capacity and L2 vocabulary knowledge | 第150页 |
| ·Summary | 第150-152页 |
| Chapter 6 General Discussion and Conclusion | 第152-168页 |
| ·Discussion on the major findings | 第153-161页 |
| ·How does the development of L2 vocabulary knowledge modify access to word meanings represented in the L2 mental lexicon of Chinese learners of English? | 第153-155页 |
| ·Are there any differences in semantic and associative link patterns in the lexical networks represented in the L2 mental lexicon? | 第155-157页 |
| ·How do individual differences in working memory capacity constrain access to word meanings in the L2 mental lexicon? | 第157-159页 |
| ·Frequency effects in L2 semantic processing | 第158-159页 |
| ·Task effect of the primed lexical decision | 第159页 |
| ·Are there any correlations between the development of L2 vocabulary knowledge and individual differences in the working memory capacity? | 第159-160页 |
| ·Summary | 第160-161页 |
| ·Nature of a developing L2 mental lexicon and importance of the tri-component framework of L2 lexical competence | 第161-163页 |
| ·A developing second language mental lexicon from the perspective of L2 lexical competence | 第161-162页 |
| ·Construct of L2 lexical competence | 第162-163页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第163-164页 |
| ·Implications | 第164-166页 |
| ·Implications for the acquisition of second language vocabulary knowledge in a Chinese classroom context | 第164-165页 |
| ·Implications for the development of L2 lexical networks in a Chinese classroom context | 第165-166页 |
| ·Suggestions for future research | 第166-168页 |
| APPENDICES | 第168-185页 |
| REFERENCES | 第185-196页 |
