| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-17页 |
| ·Motivation for the Study | 第11-14页 |
| ·Inadequate Use of Adverbs in the Writings of Chinese EFL Learners | 第11-12页 |
| ·Limited Awareness of Teaching and Learning of Adverbs | 第12-14页 |
| ·Insufficient Research on Adverbs | 第14页 |
| ·The Significance of the Study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Research Questions in the Present Study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Overview of the Thesis | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-31页 |
| ·Adverbs | 第17-21页 |
| ·Definition of Adverbs | 第17页 |
| ·Form of Adverbs | 第17-18页 |
| ·Semantic Classification of Adverbs | 第18-20页 |
| ·Positions of Adverbs | 第20-21页 |
| ·Interlanguage Theory | 第21-26页 |
| ·Second Language Acquisition | 第22-23页 |
| ·Interlanguage Theory | 第23-26页 |
| ·Previous Studies | 第26-31页 |
| Chapter Three Research Methodology | 第31-43页 |
| ·Corpus-based Contrastive Analysis | 第31-35页 |
| ·Corpus-based Study | 第31-33页 |
| ·Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis | 第33-35页 |
| ·Corpora Used in the Study | 第35-38页 |
| ·Description of CEM | 第35-36页 |
| ·Description of ABNC | 第36-38页 |
| ·Instruments | 第38-39页 |
| ·The Retrieval Procedure | 第39-43页 |
| ·Adverbs to be Studied | 第39-40页 |
| ·Data Retrieval | 第40-43页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussions | 第43-65页 |
| ·General Study of Adverbs | 第43-47页 |
| ·Overall Frequency | 第43页 |
| ·Distribution of Semantic Categories | 第43-46页 |
| ·Distribution of Positions | 第46-47页 |
| ·Specific Studies of Adverbs | 第47-52页 |
| ·Top Fifteen Adverbs in CEM and ABNEC | 第47-50页 |
| ·Adverbs Overused/underused by Chinese Learners | 第50-52页 |
| ·Possible Explanations for the General Findings | 第52-59页 |
| ·Relationship between Learners' Use of Adverbs and Writing Quality | 第59-62页 |
| ·Summary | 第62-65页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第65-71页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第65-66页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications of the Study | 第66-68页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Further Study | 第68-71页 |
| Bibliography | 第71-83页 |
| Appendix | 第83页 |
