| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第11-20页 |
| 1．1 What does lexical competence involve? | 第11-12页 |
| 1．2 Lexical semantics: the study of word-meaning | 第12-14页 |
| 1．2．1 The importance of teaching and learning word-meaning | 第12-13页 |
| 1．2．2 Current approach to the description of word-meaning | 第13页 |
| 1．2．3 The aspects of meaning to be tested | 第13-14页 |
| 1．3 Learning strategy | 第14-17页 |
| 1．3．1 Selective attention | 第15页 |
| 1．3．2 Inferencing | 第15-17页 |
| 1．4 Research findings of synonym learning | 第17-19页 |
| 1．5 The necessity of distinguishing synonyms from the perspective of meaning | 第19-20页 |
| Chapter Two Knowledge on English Synonyms | 第20-25页 |
| 2．1 The classification, definition and characteristics of synonyms | 第20-21页 |
| 2．1．1 Classification | 第20页 |
| 2．1．2 Definition and Characteristics | 第20-21页 |
| 2．2 Sources of English synonyms | 第21-22页 |
| 2．3 How to distinguish English synonyms? | 第22-25页 |
| Chapter Three Research Design | 第25-29页 |
| 3．1 Research Design | 第25-29页 |
| 3．1．1 Hypotheses | 第25页 |
| 3．1．2 Subjects | 第25-26页 |
| 3．1．3 Measuring instrument and procedure | 第26-27页 |
| 3．1．4 Scoring | 第27页 |
| 3．1．5 Statistical instruments | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第29-47页 |
| 4．1 Description of the results | 第29-33页 |
| 4．1．1 Results of the synonym test | 第29-31页 |
| 4．1．2 Scores of the three categories of test items | 第31页 |
| 4．1．3 Correlation between the synonym test results and the TEM-4 results | 第31-33页 |
| 4．2 Data Analysis of the Questionnaire | 第33-37页 |
| 4．2．1 The use of dictionaries | 第34-35页 |
| 4．2．2 Different aspects of synonyms attended to be the subjects | 第35-36页 |
| 4．2．3 Strategies and methods adopted by the subjects | 第36-37页 |
| 4．3 Discussion | 第37-47页 |
| 4．3．1 Learners' language proficiency positively correlates with their ability to use synonyms appropriately． The correlation results mainly from the use of different strategies | 第37-40页 |
| 4．3．2 Selective attention promotes synonym learning | 第40-42页 |
| 4．3．3 Consulting dictionaries is a helpful way in synonym learning, but the overuse of dictionaries may impede the learning | 第42-45页 |
| 4．3．4 Motivation alone is not sufficient to help achieve high learning efficiency | 第45-46页 |
| 4．3．5 Learners found the stylistic meaning of synonyms easier than the affective meaning and the emphatic aspect of conceptual meaning | 第46-47页 |
| Chapter Five Suggestions for Synonym Teaching | 第47-54页 |
| 5．1 Learning strategy training | 第47-49页 |
| 5．2 Interactional input | 第49-50页 |
| 5．3 Dictionary use | 第50-51页 |
| 5．4 Principles for teaching synonyms | 第51-52页 |
| 5．5 Limitations | 第52-54页 |
| References | 第54-57页 |
| Appendix: The test paper on synonyms | 第57-60页 |
