| Acknowledgements | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-11页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第11-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-18页 |
| 1.1 General Background | 第14-15页 |
| 1.2 Purpose of the Study | 第15-16页 |
| 1.3 Organization of the Thesis | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第18-35页 |
| 2.1 Vocabulary Teaching and Learning and Its Main Methodologies | 第18-21页 |
| 2.2 Introduction to Corpus and Corpus Linguistics | 第21-25页 |
| 2.2.1 Introduction to Corpus | 第21-23页 |
| 2.2.2 Introduction to Corpus Linguistics | 第23-25页 |
| 2.3 The Contribution of Corpus to Language Teaching and Its Limitations | 第25-28页 |
| 2.4 Corpus-based Vocabulary Teaching | 第28-35页 |
| 2.4.1 Research Abroad | 第29-31页 |
| 2.4.2 Research in China | 第31-35页 |
| Chapter Three A Corpus-based Approach to Vocabulary Teaching of NSEC | 第35-59页 |
| 3.1 Building Corpus for Vocabulary Teaching of NSEC | 第35-37页 |
| 3.2 Analysis Tool | 第37-39页 |
| 3.3 The Application of Corpus to Vocabulary Teaching of NSEC | 第39-49页 |
| 3.3.1 Word Frequency and Word Lists | 第39-41页 |
| 3.3.2 Word Construction | 第41-43页 |
| 3.3.3 Synonym Differentiation | 第43-45页 |
| 3.3.4 Collocation | 第45-47页 |
| 3.3.5 Semantic Prosody Analysis | 第47-49页 |
| 3.4 A Sample Teaching Design | 第49-56页 |
| 3.5 Changes of Teachers' Role and Students' Role | 第56-59页 |
| Chapter Four Research Design and Experiment | 第59-70页 |
| 4.1 Research Questions | 第59-60页 |
| 4.2 Research Subjects | 第60-61页 |
| 4.3 Research Instruments | 第61-62页 |
| 4.3.1 Corpus | 第61页 |
| 4.3.2 Software | 第61页 |
| 4.3.3 Pre-test and Post-tests | 第61-62页 |
| 4.4 Research Procedures | 第62-65页 |
| 4.4.1 Pre-experiment | 第62-63页 |
| 4.4.2 During-experiment | 第63-65页 |
| 4.4.3 Post-experiment | 第65页 |
| 4.5 Results of the Tests and Analysis | 第65-70页 |
| 4.5.1 Results of the Pre-test and Analysis | 第65-66页 |
| 4.5.2 Results of the Immediate Post-test and Analysis | 第66-68页 |
| 4.5.3 Results of the Delayed Post-test and Analysis | 第68-70页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第70-74页 |
| 5.1 Major Findings | 第70-71页 |
| 5.2 Research Significance | 第71-72页 |
| 5.3 Limitations and Future Researches | 第72-74页 |
| References | 第74-80页 |
| Appendices | 第80-98页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ A Simple Guide to Using AntConc | 第80-88页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ Pre-test Paper | 第88-90页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ Immediate Post-test Paper | 第90-92页 |
| Appendix Ⅳ Delayed Post-test Paper | 第92-95页 |
| Appendix Ⅴ Target Words and Expressions (extracted from Unit 1-Unit 5 in Module 1of NSEC) | 第95-96页 |
| Appendix Ⅵ Results of the Pre-test | 第96-97页 |
| Appendix Ⅶ Results of the Immediate Post-test | 第97-98页 |
| Appendix Ⅷ Results of the Delayed Post-test | 第98页 |
