| Acknowledgements | 第1-9页 |
| List of Tables and Figures | 第9-12页 |
| Abstract | 第12-14页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第16-20页 |
| ·Research orientation | 第16-18页 |
| ·Rationale for the research | 第18-19页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第19-20页 |
| Chapter Two Previous Studies on Self-Concept | 第20-39页 |
| ·Conceptualizing self-concept | 第20-22页 |
| ·Theorizing self-concept | 第22-23页 |
| ·Modeling self-concept | 第23-27页 |
| ·The unidimensional model | 第23-24页 |
| ·The multidimensional and hierarchical model | 第24-25页 |
| ·Shavelson's self-concept model | 第24-25页 |
| ·Bracken's Multidimensional Self Concept Scale | 第25页 |
| ·Self attitudes organized in self-concept(Burn's model) | 第25-27页 |
| ·Measuring self-concept | 第27-28页 |
| ·Investigating academic self-concept | 第28-37页 |
| ·Definitions | 第28-29页 |
| ·Previous studies on academic self-concept | 第29-37页 |
| ·Fashioning of academic self-concept | 第29-32页 |
| ·Frames of reference effect | 第29-31页 |
| ·The BFLPE and assimilation effects | 第30-31页 |
| ·The I/E frame of reference model | 第31页 |
| ·Self motivations | 第31-32页 |
| ·Multidimensional and hierarchical model | 第32-35页 |
| ·Shavelson et al's(1976)model | 第32-33页 |
| ·Song and Hattie's(1984)model | 第33-34页 |
| ·The Marsh/Shavelson(1985)model | 第34-35页 |
| ·Academic self-concept and academic achievement | 第35-37页 |
| ·Correlation investigations | 第35-37页 |
| ·Cause-and-effect explorations | 第37页 |
| ·Summarizing previous studies | 第37-39页 |
| Chapter Three Research Question,Hypothesis,and Method | 第39-53页 |
| ·Research question | 第39-41页 |
| ·Hypothesis | 第41-42页 |
| ·Method | 第42-53页 |
| ·Subjects | 第42页 |
| ·Instruments | 第42-48页 |
| ·English proficiency test papers | 第42-43页 |
| ·A self-designed questionnaire for English learning self-concept | 第43-48页 |
| ·Procedure | 第48-49页 |
| ·Methods for data collection and analyses | 第49-53页 |
| ·Data collection methods | 第49-51页 |
| ·Data analysis methods | 第51-53页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第53-75页 |
| ·Results | 第53-71页 |
| ·Correlation analyses | 第53-57页 |
| ·Between self-concept and English achievement in general | 第53-54页 |
| ·Between self-concept and English listening achievement | 第54-55页 |
| ·Between self-concept and English speaking achievement | 第55-56页 |
| ·Between self-concept and English reading achievement | 第56-57页 |
| ·Between self-concept and English writing achievement | 第57页 |
| ·Tests of differences among correlation coefficients | 第57-61页 |
| ·In the domain of English learning in general | 第58-59页 |
| ·In the domain of English listening | 第59页 |
| ·In the domain of English speaking | 第59-60页 |
| ·In the domain of English reading | 第60页 |
| ·In the domain of English writing | 第60-61页 |
| ·Regression analyses | 第61-71页 |
| ·Regression of English learning to self-concept | 第61-63页 |
| ·Regression of English listening to self-concept | 第63-65页 |
| ·Regression of English speaking to self-concept | 第65-67页 |
| ·Regression of English reading to self-concept | 第67-69页 |
| ·Regression of English writing to self-concept | 第69-71页 |
| ·Discussion | 第71-75页 |
| ·Results for Sub-research Question 1 | 第71-72页 |
| ·Results for Sub-research Question 2 | 第72页 |
| ·Results for Sub-research Question 3 | 第72-73页 |
| ·Results for Sub-research Question 4 | 第73-74页 |
| ·Results for Sub-research Question 5 | 第74-75页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第75-79页 |
| ·Findings | 第75-76页 |
| ·Implications | 第76-78页 |
| ·Limitations | 第78-79页 |
| References | 第79-83页 |
| Appendix A Criteria for Scoring Compositions | 第83-84页 |
| Appendix B Criteria for Scoring Oral English Performance | 第84-85页 |
| Appendix C Subjects' Raw Scores by Three Raters for English Compositions | 第85-86页 |
| Appendix D Subjects' Raw Scores by Three Raters in Oral English Test | 第86-87页 |
| Appendix E Subjects' Scores in the English Test | 第87-89页 |
| Appendix F Modified Test Paper of CET-4 | 第89-101页 |
| Appendix G Oral English Test Paper | 第101-108页 |
| Appendix H A Survey on English Learning Self-Concept | 第108-117页 |
| Appendix I Raw Data from the English Learning Self-Concept Survey | 第117-129页 |
| Appendix J Subjects' Reduced Data from the Questionnaire-based Survey for 3 Dimensions of Self-Concept in 5 Domains of Learning | 第129-131页 |