| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract in English | 第7-9页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第9-18页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第18-21页 |
| ·Purpose of the study | 第18-19页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第19页 |
| ·Layout of the thesis | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第21-36页 |
| ·Basic terms concerned | 第21-26页 |
| ·Classroom research and classroom-centred research | 第21页 |
| ·Second language (SL or L2) and foreign language (FL) | 第21-23页 |
| ·Foreigner talk, teacher talk and teacher speech | 第23-26页 |
| ·The study of teacher talk and its development | 第26-31页 |
| ·Research abroad | 第26-30页 |
| ·Research in China | 第30-31页 |
| ·The study related to syntactic characteristics in teacher talk | 第31-36页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Foundations | 第36-52页 |
| ·Factors in language learning | 第36-44页 |
| ·Language contact | 第36-37页 |
| ·Language input | 第37-39页 |
| ·Learning interaction | 第39-40页 |
| ·The Output Hypothesis | 第40-44页 |
| ·Imitation, production, and remedial action | 第40-42页 |
| ·The Output Hypothesis | 第42-44页 |
| ·Teachers’ speech | 第44-48页 |
| ·Classification of teachers’ speech | 第44页 |
| ·Categories and functions of teachers’ speech | 第44-45页 |
| ·Evaluation of teachers’ speech | 第45-48页 |
| ·Grammaticality | 第48页 |
| ·Syntactic typology of English | 第48-52页 |
| ·Simple, compound, complex, and complex-compound sentences | 第48-49页 |
| ·Declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative sentences | 第49页 |
| ·Positive and negative sentences | 第49-50页 |
| ·Complete and incomplete sentences | 第50-52页 |
| Chapter 4 Research Method | 第52-56页 |
| ·Research questions | 第52页 |
| ·Subjects | 第52-54页 |
| ·Instruments and procedures | 第54页 |
| ·Data collection | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter 5 Data Analysis and Discussion | 第56-97页 |
| ·The sentence length in teachers’ speech | 第56-58页 |
| ·Teacher speech rate | 第58-59页 |
| ·Sentence type distribution in teacher speech | 第59-69页 |
| ·Simple, compound, complex, and complex-compound sentences | 第59-63页 |
| ·Distribution of complex sentences | 第60-62页 |
| ·Distribution of adverbial sentences | 第62页 |
| ·Compound sentences without conjunctions | 第62-63页 |
| ·Declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative sentences | 第63-65页 |
| ·Positive and negative sentences | 第65-66页 |
| ·Complete and incomplete sentences | 第66-69页 |
| ·The basic syntactic patterns | 第69-77页 |
| ·Question patterns | 第69-71页 |
| ·The distribution of questions | 第69-70页 |
| ·Questions in statement order | 第70-71页 |
| ·Feedback patterns | 第71-73页 |
| ·Directive patterns | 第73-74页 |
| ·Self repair patterns | 第74-75页 |
| ·Error treatment patterns | 第75-76页 |
| ·Patterns for students’ contributions | 第76-77页 |
| ·The rarely used patterns by the teachers | 第77-80页 |
| ·Repetition sentences | 第80-86页 |
| ·Vague sentences | 第86-87页 |
| ·Grammaticality | 第87-96页 |
| ·Summary | 第96-97页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusions and Implications | 第97-101页 |
| ·Major findings and conclusions | 第97-98页 |
| ·Implications for teaching | 第98-99页 |
| ·Limitations and further research | 第99-101页 |
| Appendixes | 第101-105页 |
| Bibliography | 第105-112页 |
