| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| ·The Significance of the Discourse Markers in English Writing | 第10-11页 |
| ·Existing Problems for Chinese College EFL Learners | 第11-13页 |
| ·The Aims of the Study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Overview of the Remaining Chapters | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第15-27页 |
| ·Discourse Markers | 第15-17页 |
| ·Classification of Causal Discourse Markers | 第17-19页 |
| ·Relevance Theory | 第19-21页 |
| ·Cross-cultural Contrastive Studies on Discourse Markers | 第21-23页 |
| ·The Use of Discourse Markers in writing across proficiency levels | 第23-24页 |
| ·Studies on the Use of Discourse Markers in writing based on corpus | 第24-27页 |
| Chapter Three Methods and Procedure | 第27-36页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第27页 |
| ·The methodology of Corpus-based Analysis | 第27-28页 |
| ·Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis | 第28-29页 |
| ·Corpora | 第29-32页 |
| ·CLEC | 第29-30页 |
| ·BROWN | 第30-32页 |
| ·An introduction to the retrieving software | 第32页 |
| ·The Retrieval Procedure of Causal Discourse Markers in the Present Study | 第32-36页 |
| ·Data Retrieval | 第32-33页 |
| ·Identifying the Right Items | 第33-36页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第36-49页 |
| ·General Study of Causal Discourse Markers by Chinese Learners | 第36-41页 |
| ·Discussion: Possible Explanations for the General Findings of Chinese EFL Learners’Use of Causal Discourse Markers Compared with Native Speakers | 第41-43页 |
| ·Specific Study of Causal Discourse Markers | 第43-48页 |
| ·Causal Discourse Markers Over/Underused by Chinese Learners | 第43-45页 |
| ·Possible Explanations for the Learners’Use of Specific Causal Discourse Markers | 第45页 |
| ·Causal Discourse Markers Misused by Chinese Learners | 第45-48页 |
| ·Summary | 第48-49页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第49-52页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第49-50页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications of This Study | 第50-51页 |
| ·Limitations of This Study | 第51-52页 |
| Bibliography | 第52-57页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第57页 |
