| CHAPTER Ⅰ INTRODUCTION: an overview of vocabulary | 第12-18页 |
| 1．1 Linguist's view on vocabulary | 第13-15页 |
| 1．2 A survey of English vocabulary teaching in other countries | 第15-17页 |
| 1．3 A survey of English vocabulary teaching in China | 第17-18页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅱ BASIC CONCEPTS: a distinction | 第18-28页 |
| 2．1 Foreign language and second Language | 第18-19页 |
| 2．2 Word in linguistic field and word list | 第19-24页 |
| 2．2．1 Word in linguistic field | 第19页 |
| 2．2．2 Word in word list | 第19-24页 |
| 2．2．2．1 Word meaning | 第20-22页 |
| 2．2．2．2 Collocations and associations of word | 第22-23页 |
| 2．2．2．3 Word form | 第23-24页 |
| 2．3 Vocabulary acquisition and learning | 第24-25页 |
| 2．4 Active and passive vocabulary | 第25-26页 |
| 2．4．1 Productive and receptive vocabulary | 第25-26页 |
| 2．4．2 Active and passive vocabulary | 第26页 |
| 2．4．3 Establishing and increasing vocabulary | 第26页 |
| 2．5 The goal the L2 learners should reach | 第26-28页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅲ STRATEGIES AND PROBLEMS | 第28-44页 |
| 3．1 Common lexical problems L2 learners encountered in their learning | 第28-33页 |
| 3．1．1 Common lexical problems of L2 learners | 第28-32页 |
| 3．1．2 Chinese learner's vocabulary learning quality | 第32-33页 |
| 3．2 Common strategies L2 learners used for strengthening vocabulary memory-----questionnaire for Chinese college students | 第33-44页 |
| 3．2．1 Common strategies L2 learner used to learn vocabulary | 第33-38页 |
| 3．2．2 Common strategies used by Chinese college learners | 第38-44页 |
| 3．2．2．1 Selection of involved students | 第39页 |
| 3．2．2．2 The design of the questionnaire | 第39-40页 |
| 3．2．2．3 Result analysis | 第40-43页 |
| 3．2．2．4 Summary | 第43-44页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅳ LINGUISTIC CRITERIA | 第44-69页 |
| 4．1 Common well-known word lists in the world | 第44-51页 |
| 4．1．1 The Teacher's Word Book of 30,000 Words | 第45-46页 |
| 4．1．2 General Service List | 第46-48页 |
| 4．1．3 Basic English | 第48-50页 |
| 4．1．4 Other word lists | 第50-51页 |
| 4．2 Linguistic criteria of word selection | 第51-66页 |
| 4．2．1 Richard's criteria | 第51-62页 |
| 4．2．1．1 Frequency factor | 第51-53页 |
| 4．2．1．2 Range | 第53页 |
| 4．2．1．3 Language needs | 第53页 |
| 4．2．1．4 Availability and familiarity | 第53-54页 |
| 4．2．1．5 Coverage | 第54-55页 |
| 4．2．1．6 Regularity | 第55-56页 |
| 4．2．1．7 Ease of learning or learning burden | 第56-62页 |
| 4．2．2 Carter's criteria | 第62-65页 |
| 4．2．3 Sinclair's criteria | 第65-66页 |
| 4．3 Other considerations for word selection of word list | 第66-68页 |
| 4．4 Considering Chinese context when editing English word list | 第68-69页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅴ PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS | 第69-86页 |
| 5．1 Vocabulary and memory | 第69-70页 |
| 5．2 Basic knowledge of memory | 第70-75页 |
| 5．2．1 Sensory stores | 第71-72页 |
| 5．2．2 STM and LTM | 第72-75页 |
| 5．3 How learners store words | 第75-78页 |
| 5．4 Factors affecting word recognition | 第78-86页 |
| 5．4．1 Word frequency | 第78-80页 |
| 5．4．2 Recency effect | 第80页 |
| 5．4．3 Repetition | 第80-82页 |
| 5．4．4 Linguistic factors | 第82-86页 |
| 5．4．4．1． Phonological factor | 第83页 |
| 5．4．4．2 Morphological factor | 第83-84页 |
| 5．4．4．3 Semantic and syntactic context factor | 第84-86页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅵ APPLICATION | 第86-101页 |
| 6．1 A looking into the edition of English vocabulary book in China | 第86-87页 |
| 6．2 Chinese Syllabus and related GSL | 第87-94页 |
| 6．2．1 College English Syllabus | 第87-94页 |
| 6．2．1．1 Vocabulary quantity in College English Syllabus | 第88-90页 |
| 6．2．1．2 Vocabulary quality in General Word List of College English Syllabus | 第90-94页 |
| 6．3 The contrast between GSL and Ma's book and Wang's book | 第94-99页 |
| 6．3．1 In quantity （word number, and word meaning number） | 第94-95页 |
| 6．3．1．1 Ma's word list | 第94-95页 |
| 6．3．1．2 Wang's word list | 第95页 |
| 6．3．2 Contrast in quality | 第95-98页 |
| 6．3．2．1 Advantages | 第95-97页 |
| 6．3．2．2 Disadvantages | 第97-98页 |
| 6．3．3 Additional information---listening involvement | 第98-99页 |
| 6．4 Essential elements for an ideal vocabulary book | 第99-101页 |
| CONCLUSION | 第101-103页 |
| APPENDIX | 第103-104页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第104-108页 |
