| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| CONTENTS | 第9-12页 |
| LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 第12-13页 |
| LIST OF TABLES | 第13-14页 |
| CHAPTER ONE Introduction | 第14-18页 |
| ·Research Background | 第14-15页 |
| ·Research Orientation and Significance | 第15-16页 |
| ·Research Questions: | 第16页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第16-18页 |
| CHAPTER TWO Review of Related Literature | 第18-32页 |
| ·Overview | 第18页 |
| ·Studies on Vocabulary Acquisition | 第18-23页 |
| ·Studies on Incidental L2 Vocabulary Acquisition Through Reading | 第18-21页 |
| ·Studies on the Cognitive Process of L2 Vocabulary Acquisition | 第21-23页 |
| ·Studies on Bilingual Mental Lexicon | 第23页 |
| ·Memory and Information Processing System | 第23-26页 |
| ·Memory and Cognitive Process | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Information Processing System | 第24-25页 |
| ·Mental Lexicon and Vocabulary Acquisition | 第25-26页 |
| ·Conceptualization | 第26页 |
| ·Lexical Inferencing Strategies | 第26-27页 |
| ·A Model of Adult L2 Vocabulary Acquisition | 第27-29页 |
| ·Hypothesis of the Cognitive Process of L2 Incidental Vocabulary acquisition | 第29-30页 |
| ·Summary | 第30-32页 |
| CHAPTER THREE Research Design and Methodology | 第32-43页 |
| ·Overview | 第32页 |
| ·Research design | 第32-33页 |
| ·Subjects | 第33页 |
| ·Materials: | 第33-35页 |
| ·Reading Passages | 第33-34页 |
| ·Target Words | 第34-35页 |
| ·Instruments | 第35-38页 |
| ·Questionnaire and Target Words Pretest | 第35页 |
| ·Target Words Post-tests | 第35-36页 |
| ·Reading Comprehension Test | 第36页 |
| ·The Retrospective Think-aloud Protocols: | 第36-37页 |
| ·Pilot Study | 第37-38页 |
| ·Procedures | 第38-39页 |
| ·Data Collection and Analysis | 第39-42页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第39-40页 |
| ·Analysis of the Questionnaire and Target Words Pretest: | 第40页 |
| ·Scoring of Target Words Posttest | 第40页 |
| ·Classification of the Think-aloud Protocols | 第40-42页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第42页 |
| ·Summary | 第42-43页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR Results and Discussion | 第43-67页 |
| ·Overview | 第43页 |
| ·Findings of the Study | 第43-51页 |
| ·Summary Report of Topic Familiarity | 第43-44页 |
| ·Summary Report of Target Words (TW) Acquired in the First Posttest | 第44-47页 |
| ·Summary Report of Target Words (TW) Acquired in the Second Posttest | 第47-50页 |
| ·Summary Data of Semantic Processing Strategies | 第50-51页 |
| ·Quantitative Analyses | 第51-55页 |
| ·T-test on Topic Familiarity of the Two Reading Passages | 第51-52页 |
| ·T-test on the Acquisition of the Target Words in the Two Reading Passages in the Pretest and the Two Posttests | 第52页 |
| ·Correlation of Semantic Processing Strategies Employed and the Acquisition of Target Words in the 2 Posttests | 第52-55页 |
| ·Qualitative Analyses | 第55-65页 |
| ·Successful Semantic Processing | 第55-61页 |
| ·Classification of Reasons on Acquisition Failure in IVA through Reading | 第61-65页 |
| ·Summary | 第65-67页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE Conclusion | 第67-71页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第67-68页 |
| ·Theoretical and Pedagogical Implication | 第68-69页 |
| ·Limitation of the Study and Suggestions for Further Study | 第69-71页 |
| REFERENCES | 第71-74页 |
| APPENDICIES | 第74-83页 |
