| ABSTRACT | 第1-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-18页 |
| ·Reading objectives in curriculum programs and testing | 第14页 |
| ·Current problems in designing reading materials | 第14-16页 |
| ·The significance and purpose of the research | 第16页 |
| ·General structure of the study | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第18-33页 |
| ·The role of textbooks in language teaching and learning | 第18页 |
| ·Definition of discourse | 第18-19页 |
| ·General description of discourse analysis | 第19-31页 |
| ·Genre | 第20-22页 |
| ·Larger patterns of discourse organization | 第22-25页 |
| ·Thematic development | 第25-27页 |
| ·Cohesion | 第27-29页 |
| ·Grammatical cohesion | 第27-28页 |
| ·Lexical cohesion | 第28-29页 |
| ·Coherence | 第29-30页 |
| ·Context | 第30-31页 |
| ·Bloom's Taxonomy of cognitive objectives | 第31-33页 |
| Chapter Three A Discourse-Oriented Framework for Reading MaterialsEvaluation | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter Four Design of the Research | 第35-38页 |
| ·Research corpuses | 第35-36页 |
| ·Reasons concerning corpuses selection | 第36页 |
| ·Research questions | 第36页 |
| ·Methods of data analysis | 第36-38页 |
| Chapter Five Results and Discussion | 第38-75页 |
| ·Findings from the reading materials | 第38-43页 |
| ·Topic | 第38-40页 |
| ·Genre | 第40-42页 |
| ·Textual coherence | 第42-43页 |
| ·Findings from the accompanying tasks | 第43-75页 |
| ·Preparing for reading | 第43-52页 |
| ·Getting started tasks | 第43-51页 |
| ·Fast reading activities | 第51-52页 |
| ·Moving on to read | 第52-72页 |
| ·True or false questions,multiple choices,and short-answer questions | 第53-57页 |
| ·Information transfer | 第57-58页 |
| ·Exercise concerning language style | 第58-59页 |
| ·Suggested tasks concerning organization of discourse | 第59-72页 |
| ·Discovering meanings | 第72-73页 |
| ·Thinking about the reading | 第73-75页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第75-79页 |
| ·Primary findings and pedagogical implications | 第75-77页 |
| ·Selection of the reading materials | 第75-76页 |
| ·Design of the accompanying tasks | 第76-77页 |
| ·Limitations and suggestions for further research | 第77-79页 |
| Bibliography | 第79-83页 |
| Appendix | 第83-109页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ General Information about the Reading Materials | 第83-86页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ Summary of Activities in Preparing for Reading | 第86-90页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ Summary of Activities in Moving on to Read | 第90-92页 |
| Appendix Ⅳ Summary of Activities in Discovering Meanings | 第92-97页 |
| Appendix Ⅴ Summary of Activities in Thinking about the Reading | 第97-101页 |
| Appendix Ⅵ Cartoons and Comic Strips(text) | 第101-102页 |
| Appendix Ⅶ Holidays and Festivals in the United Kingdom(getting started task) | 第102-103页 |
| Appendix Ⅷ Oliver Wants More(getting started task) | 第103-104页 |
| Appendix Ⅸ Michelangelo(text) | 第104-105页 |
| Appendix Ⅹ Oceans under Threat (text) | 第105-106页 |
| Appendix Ⅺ A Brief Look at Two Metropolises (text) | 第106-107页 |
| Appendix Ⅻ One example of the cloze exercise in Discovering meanings | 第107-108页 |
| Appendix ⅩⅢ Adjo (text) | 第108-109页 |
