| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-10页 |
| Contents | 第10-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-17页 |
| ·Motivation of this study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Need for the study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Outline of the thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature review | 第17-38页 |
| ·Definition of basic concepts | 第17-24页 |
| ·English fricatives | 第17-19页 |
| ·Classification of English fricatives | 第19-20页 |
| ·Features of English fricatives | 第20-24页 |
| ·Articulatory features | 第21页 |
| ·Acoustic features | 第21-24页 |
| ·Related theoretical studies of the acquisition of English phonetics | 第24-30页 |
| ·Language transfer and SLA | 第25-26页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis | 第26页 |
| ·Interlanguage Phonology | 第26-27页 |
| ·Language input and output | 第27-28页 |
| ·Perception of English phonetics | 第28-30页 |
| ·Perceptual Assimilation Model | 第28-29页 |
| ·Speech Perception and Motor Theory | 第29-30页 |
| ·Production of English phonetics and Speech Learning Model | 第30页 |
| ·Empirical studies of the acquisition of English phonetics | 第30-34页 |
| ·Empirical studies on acoustic features of fricatives | 第31-32页 |
| ·Empirical studies on phonological acquisition of EFL learner | 第32-33页 |
| ·Empirical studies about the relationship between perception and production | 第33-34页 |
| ·Distinctive features of English and Chinese fricatives | 第34-36页 |
| ·The Significance and the focus of the present study | 第36-38页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第38-47页 |
| ·Introduction | 第38页 |
| ·Research questions | 第38页 |
| ·Research design | 第38-41页 |
| ·Subjects | 第38-39页 |
| ·Instruments | 第39-41页 |
| ·Materials for the perception test | 第40页 |
| ·Materials for the production test | 第40-41页 |
| ·Data collection and data analysis | 第41-47页 |
| ·Perceptive data | 第41-42页 |
| ·Productive data | 第42-47页 |
| Chapter Four Results & Discussion | 第47-72页 |
| ·Correct perception rate of English fricatives | 第47-54页 |
| ·Overall perceptive acquisition rate | 第47-48页 |
| ·Category correct perceptive acquisition rate | 第48-50页 |
| ·Perceptive acquisitive rate of each fricative in three phonetic contexts | 第50-51页 |
| ·Typical misperceived English fricatives | 第51-54页 |
| ·Correct Production Rate of English Fricatives | 第54-68页 |
| ·Overall Correct production rate | 第54-56页 |
| ·Category correct productive acquisition rate | 第56-57页 |
| ·Contextual productive acquisition mean | 第57-58页 |
| ·Typical misspoken English fricatives in three phonetic contexts | 第58-61页 |
| ·Acoustic analysis of production errors | 第61-68页 |
| ·Most and Least Acquired Fricatives | 第68-69页 |
| ·Correlations between production and perception of English fricatives | 第69-71页 |
| ·Summary | 第71-72页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusions | 第72-82页 |
| ·Major findings | 第72页 |
| ·Implications | 第72-79页 |
| ·Theoretical implications | 第72-73页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications | 第73-76页 |
| ·The status quo of phonetics acquisition of English | 第73-74页 |
| ·Prominent problems in phonetics acquisition | 第74-76页 |
| ·Strategies in Phonetic Teaching | 第76-79页 |
| ·Changing students’ attitude toward phonetic study | 第76-77页 |
| ·Combining practice with corresponding lecturing | 第77页 |
| ·Highlighting contrast analysis | 第77页 |
| ·Making use of multimedia and diversified teaching methods | 第77-78页 |
| ·Spectrogram analysis in assisting phonetic teaching | 第78-79页 |
| ·Limitations of the study and suggestions for future studies | 第79-82页 |
| ·Limitations of present study | 第79-80页 |
| ·Suggestions for future research | 第80-82页 |
| Bibliography | 第82-85页 |
