| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-9页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第9-16页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第16-19页 |
| ·Why the study should be conducted | 第16-17页 |
| ·How the study is significant | 第17页 |
| ·How the thesis is structured | 第17-18页 |
| ·Summary | 第18-19页 |
| Chapter Two General Theories of Narrative and Narrative Discourse Structure: Literature Review | 第19-39页 |
| ·Clarifying some concepts | 第19-22页 |
| ·The concept of narrative | 第19-20页 |
| ·The concept of topic and macrostructure | 第20-21页 |
| ·The concept of core narrative | 第21-22页 |
| ·Narrative and story: Literary studies | 第22-23页 |
| ·Narrative and story: Linguistic studies | 第23-27页 |
| ·Narrative structure | 第27-38页 |
| ·Narrative structure: Form a linguistic perspective | 第27-29页 |
| ·Narrative structure: From a cognitive perspective | 第29-38页 |
| ·Summary | 第38-39页 |
| Chapter Three Identifying Opening and Ending Strategies Used by the Learners in Their Oral Narratives: A Qualitative Approach | 第39-61页 |
| ·Research questions | 第39-40页 |
| ·Data preparation | 第40-42页 |
| ·TEM-Grade 4 oral test description | 第40-41页 |
| ·Corpus description | 第41-42页 |
| ·Materials | 第42-43页 |
| ·Data selections | 第43-44页 |
| ·Data analysis procedures | 第44-60页 |
| ·Coding T-Units | 第44-48页 |
| ·Selecting a few cases for microanalysis: a pilot study | 第48-49页 |
| ·Developing the tentative narrative components | 第49-51页 |
| ·Establishing the qualitative data analysis framework | 第51-60页 |
| ·Summary | 第60-61页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第61-104页 |
| ·Constructing the flow chart of L2 learners’oral narrative | 第61-67页 |
| ·Identifying and defining the macro-categories of L2 learners’oral narratives | 第61-66页 |
| ·Constructing the macro-categories of L2 learners’oral narratives | 第66-67页 |
| ·The opening and ending categories generated from the person-oriented cases | 第67-79页 |
| ·Types of opening category | 第68-73页 |
| ·Types of ending category | 第73-78页 |
| ·The discourse structure generated from the person-oriented cases | 第78-79页 |
| ·The opening and ending categories generated from the event-oriented cases | 第79-84页 |
| ·Types of opening category | 第79-83页 |
| ·Types of ending category | 第83页 |
| ·The discourse structure generated from the event-oriented cases | 第83-84页 |
| ·Cross-topic comparison of opening and ending strategies | 第84-89页 |
| ·Cross-topic comparisons of topic ID types | 第84-88页 |
| ·Cross-topic comparisons of topic EV types | 第88-89页 |
| ·Cross-level comparisons of opening and ending strategies | 第89-102页 |
| ·Cross-level comparisons of topic ID types | 第90-97页 |
| ·Cross-level comparisons of topic EV types | 第97-102页 |
| ·Summary | 第102-104页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第104-114页 |
| ·Major findings | 第104-107页 |
| ·Major findings in relation to the macrostructure of L2 learners’oral narratives | 第104-105页 |
| ·Major findings in relations to the cross-topic and cross level comparison | 第105-107页 |
| ·Practical implications | 第107-111页 |
| ·Implications for language testing | 第108-109页 |
| ·Implications for language teaching and learning | 第109-111页 |
| ·Limitations of the study | 第111-112页 |
| ·Discourse segmentation and categorization | 第111-112页 |
| ·Methodological issues | 第112页 |
| ·Directions for future research | 第112-113页 |
| ·Summary | 第113-114页 |
| References | 第114-116页 |
