| Acknowledgement | 第1-5页 |
| English Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| Chinese Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第8-11页 |
| ·Background Information | 第8-10页 |
| ·Research Purposes | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter Two Studies on Listening Comprehension | 第11-21页 |
| ·Studies on Listening Comprehension Abroad | 第11-14页 |
| ·General Review on Listening Comprehension | 第11页 |
| ·Development of Listening Comprehension | 第11-13页 |
| ·Significance & Strategies of Listening Comprehension | 第13-14页 |
| ·Studies on Listening Comprehension in China | 第14-19页 |
| ·Difficulties in Listening Comprehension | 第14-17页 |
| ·Strategies for Students to Improve their Listening Ability | 第17页 |
| ·Models of Teaching English Listening Comprehension | 第17-19页 |
| ·Drawbacks in Classroom Listening Teaching | 第19-21页 |
| ·Lack of Methodological Reforms | 第19页 |
| ·Lack of Outside-of-classroom Instruction | 第19-20页 |
| ·Lack of Interaction between Teachers and Students | 第20-21页 |
| Chapter Three Listening Comprehension & Utterance Relevance | 第21-50页 |
| ·The Principle of Relevance | 第21-26页 |
| ·Brief Introduction to Principle of Relevance | 第21-22页 |
| ·Relevant Studies concerning Relevance | 第22-24页 |
| ·Rationale for Applying Principle of Relevance | 第24-26页 |
| ·Listening Comprehension: Process of Searching for Relevance | 第26-39页 |
| ·Listening and Ostensive Communication | 第26-32页 |
| ·Searching for Lexical Relevance | 第32-33页 |
| ·Searching for Semantic Relevance | 第33-37页 |
| ·Searching for Situational Relevance | 第37-38页 |
| ·Other Types of Relevance | 第38-39页 |
| ·Relevance-Based Model of Teaching Listening Comprehension | 第39-50页 |
| ·Fundamental Conceptions in the Model | 第40页 |
| ·Process of Applying the Model | 第40-46页 |
| ·Significance of the Model | 第46-50页 |
| Chapter Four Conclusion | 第50-52页 |
| Bibliography | 第52-54页 |