| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-12页 |
| The significance of the present study | 第9页 |
| The reasons for the present research | 第9-10页 |
| Overview of the thesis | 第10-12页 |
| 1 Literature review | 第12-37页 |
| ·Corpus Linguistics, Learner Corpora and SLA Research | 第12-13页 |
| ·The definition of the passive voice | 第13-16页 |
| ·The Classification of the Passive Voice | 第16-25页 |
| ·Functions of passive voice | 第25-34页 |
| ·Summary of the previous study on passive voice | 第34-37页 |
| 2 Methodology | 第37-41页 |
| ·Introduction of BNC, CLEC and Wordsmith | 第37-40页 |
| ·Data Collection and Sorting | 第40-41页 |
| 3 Results and discussion | 第41-61页 |
| ·Comparison of the passive voice across the two corpora | 第41页 |
| ·Comparison of be+ven in the two corpora | 第41-44页 |
| ·Comparison of become+ven in the two corpora | 第44-45页 |
| ·Comparison of get+ven in the two corpora | 第45-46页 |
| ·Comparison of passive voice in some special cases | 第46-51页 |
| ·The distribution of passive voice in the two corpora | 第51-52页 |
| ·The misemployment of passive voice by Chinese students | 第52-61页 |
| Conclusion | 第61-64页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第64-65页 |
| References | 第65-71页 |
| Appendix I Published paper during study of MA | 第71-72页 |
| Appendix II Occurrences of fm1, fm2 in ST3 | 第72-77页 |
| Appendix III Occurrences of Vp7 in ST3 | 第77-81页 |
