| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第13-17页 |
| 1.1 Research Background | 第13-14页 |
| 1.2 Purposes and Significance of the Research | 第14-15页 |
| 1.3 Overall Organization of the research | 第15-17页 |
| CHAPTER TWO SYNTACTIC COMPELXITY AND RELEVANT STUDIES | 第17-27页 |
| 2.1 Syntactic Complexity | 第17-22页 |
| 2.1.1 Definition of Syntactic Complexity | 第17页 |
| 2.1.2 Hierarchical Frameworks | 第17-22页 |
| 2.2 Previous Studies on Syntactic Complexity in L2 Writing | 第22-27页 |
| 2.2.1 Syntactic Complexity Studies Abroad | 第23-24页 |
| 2.2.2 Syntactic Complexity Studies at Home | 第24-27页 |
| CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY | 第27-33页 |
| 3.1 Research Questions | 第27页 |
| 3.2 Corpora Collection | 第27-29页 |
| 3.2.1 Chinese EFL Learners' Argumentative Writing Corpus | 第27-28页 |
| 3.2.2 Native Speakers' Essay Corpus | 第28-29页 |
| 3.3 Indices of Syntactic Complexity | 第29-31页 |
| 3.4 Data Calculation and Data Scoring | 第31-32页 |
| 3.5 Statistical Analysis of the Data | 第32-33页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 第33-62页 |
| 4.1 Syntactic Complexity Indices Favored in Conversational Discourse | 第33-42页 |
| 4.1.1 Results Shown in Writings of Chinese Students and Native Speakers | 第33-38页 |
| 4.1.2 Discussion of Conversational Syntactic Complexity Indices | 第38-42页 |
| 4.2 Syntactic Complexity Indices Manifested in Fictional Discourse | 第42-50页 |
| 4.2.1 Results Shown in Writings of Chinese Students and Native Speakers | 第42-47页 |
| 4.2.2 Discussion of Fictional Syntactic Complexity Indices | 第47-50页 |
| 4.3 Syntactic Complexity Indices Demonstrated in Academic Discourse | 第50-62页 |
| 4.3.1 Results Shown in Writings of Chinese Students and Native Speakers | 第50-56页 |
| 4.3.2 Discussion of Academic Syntactic Complexity Indices | 第56-62页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第62-66页 |
| 5.1 Major Findings | 第62-64页 |
| 5.1.1 Conversational Syntactic Complexity Indices | 第62-63页 |
| 5.1.2 Fictional Syntactic Complexity Indices | 第63页 |
| 5.1.3 Academic Syntactic Complexity Indices | 第63-64页 |
| 5.2 Pedagogical Implications | 第64-65页 |
| 5.3 Limitations | 第65-66页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第66-71页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第71-72页 |
| APPENDIX | 第72-74页 |
| PAPER(S) PUBLISHED DURING MA STUDIES | 第74页 |
