| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-9页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| Table of Contents | 第11-14页 |
| List of Tables | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第15-20页 |
| ·Research background | 第15-16页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第16-17页 |
| ·Theoretical significance | 第16-17页 |
| ·Practical significance | 第17页 |
| ·Purpose of the study | 第17-18页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW | 第20-41页 |
| ·Reading fluency | 第20-25页 |
| ·Definition of reading fluency | 第21-23页 |
| ·Factors affecting reading fluency | 第23-24页 |
| ·Assessment of reading fluency | 第24-25页 |
| ·Lexical chunk | 第25-30页 |
| ·Definition of lexical chunk | 第25-27页 |
| ·Classification of lexical chunk | 第27-29页 |
| ·Lexical chunk in language acquisition | 第29-30页 |
| ·Vocabulary size | 第30-33页 |
| ·Classification of vocabulary size | 第30-31页 |
| ·Assessment of vocabulary size | 第31-33页 |
| ·Related theoretical issues of present study | 第33-36页 |
| ·Information processing theory | 第33页 |
| ·Chunking theory | 第33-34页 |
| ·The relationship between these theories and reading fluency as well as lexical chunking | 第34-36页 |
| ·Related empirical studies on reading fluency | 第36-39页 |
| ·Lexical chunking and reading fluency | 第36-38页 |
| ·Vocabulary size and reading fluency | 第38-39页 |
| ·Problems in the previous studies | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter Three METHODOLOGY | 第41-50页 |
| ·Research questions | 第41页 |
| ·Research design | 第41-47页 |
| ·Participants | 第42-43页 |
| ·Instruments | 第43-47页 |
| ·Reading materials | 第43-44页 |
| ·Chunking rules | 第44-45页 |
| ·Vocabulary size test | 第45-47页 |
| ·Self-paced reading under moving-window condition | 第47页 |
| ·Data collection | 第47-49页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第49-50页 |
| Chapter Four RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS | 第50-60页 |
| ·Descriptive statistics | 第50-51页 |
| ·The effects of lexical chunking on reading fluency | 第51-56页 |
| ·The effects of lexical chunking on reading comprehension | 第51-53页 |
| ·The effects of lexical chunking on reading rate | 第53-54页 |
| ·The effects of lexical chunking on regression indice | 第54-56页 |
| ·The effects of vocabulary size on reading fluency | 第56-58页 |
| ·The effects of vocabulary size on reading comprehension | 第56-57页 |
| ·The effects of vocabulary size on reading rate | 第57页 |
| ·The effects of vocabulary size on regression indice | 第57-58页 |
| ·The interaction of lexical chunking and vocabulary size on reading fluency | 第58-60页 |
| Chapter Five CONCLUSION | 第60-65页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第60-61页 |
| ·Implications | 第61-63页 |
| ·Theoretical implications | 第61-62页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications | 第62-63页 |
| ·Limitations of the Present Study | 第63-65页 |
| REFERENCES | 第65-75页 |
| Appendix I | 第75-84页 |
| Appendix II | 第84-89页 |
| Appendix III | 第89页 |
