| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·The significance of the study | 第11-12页 |
| ·Factors to be investigated | 第12-13页 |
| ·Overview of the thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第15-29页 |
| ·A Historical review of L2 vocabulary teaching | 第15-16页 |
| ·Taxonomy of modes of vocabulary acquisition | 第16-19页 |
| ·Intentional and incidental vocabulary acquisition | 第17-18页 |
| ·Direct and indirect vocabulary learning | 第18页 |
| ·Explicit and implicit learning | 第18-19页 |
| ·Theories related to vocabulary acquisition | 第19-23页 |
| ·The involvement load hypothesis | 第19-21页 |
| ·Depth processing | 第21-22页 |
| ·Noticing hypothesis | 第22-23页 |
| ·Some Factors affect incidental vocabulary acquisition | 第23-26页 |
| ·Reading purpose | 第23-25页 |
| ·Reading ability | 第25页 |
| ·Reading tasks | 第25-26页 |
| ·Incidental vocabulary acquisition and learning strategy | 第26-27页 |
| ·Incidental vocabulary acquisition and vocabulary size | 第27-28页 |
| ·Summary | 第28-29页 |
| Chapter 3 Methodology | 第29-35页 |
| ·Problems raised | 第29页 |
| ·Participants | 第29页 |
| ·Instruments | 第29-33页 |
| ·Reading materials | 第29-30页 |
| ·The target words | 第30-31页 |
| ·Tasks | 第31-32页 |
| ·Tests | 第32页 |
| ·Procedures of the experiment | 第32-33页 |
| ·Validity and reliability of the questionnaire | 第33页 |
| ·Scoring | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter 4 Results | 第35-41页 |
| ·The effect of task differences on incidental vocabulary acquistion | 第35-37页 |
| ·The effect of vocabulary effect on incidental vocabulary acquisition | 第37-39页 |
| ·The effect of learning strategy on incidental vocabulary acquisition | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter 5 Interpretations | 第41-45页 |
| ·The influence of reading purposes on incidental vocabulary acquisition | 第41-42页 |
| ·The effect of vocabulary size on incidental vocabulary acquisition | 第42页 |
| ·The effect of learning strategy on incidental vocabulary acquisition | 第42-43页 |
| ·Answers to the research questions | 第43-45页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusions | 第45-48页 |
| ·Main findings and implications | 第45-46页 |
| ·Limitations of the present study | 第46-48页 |
| References | 第48-54页 |
| Appendix | 第54-63页 |
| Papers published during 2008-2011 | 第63页 |
