| Acknowledgments | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-13页 |
| List of tables | 第13-14页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅰ INTRODUCTION | 第14-19页 |
| ·Research background | 第14-15页 |
| ·Purpose of the study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Research questions | 第16页 |
| ·Research methodology | 第16-17页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第17-18页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第18-19页 |
| CHPATER Ⅱ LITERATURE REVIEW | 第19-24页 |
| ·Arguments on learning verb with real world observation | 第19-20页 |
| ·The Syntactic Bootstrapping hypothesis | 第20-21页 |
| ·Pinker's objections to Syntactic Bootstrapping hypothesis | 第21-23页 |
| ·Summary | 第23-24页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅲ THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS | 第24-38页 |
| ·Talmy's Figure-Move-Path-Ground Characterization | 第24-29页 |
| ·A brief comparison between characterizations of Talmy's and Fillmorean | 第29-31页 |
| ·Event-frames descriptions developed by Slobin | 第31-32页 |
| ·Slobin's thinking for speaking hypothesis | 第32-34页 |
| ·Children' acquisition of event-frames | 第34-35页 |
| ·Implication: thinking for speaking hypothesis and students' awareness of events | 第35-38页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅳ STUDENTS' ERRORS ON ENGLISH VERBS | 第38-44页 |
| ·Collection of errors | 第38-39页 |
| ·Description of verb errors | 第39-42页 |
| ·Errors of Vp1 in CLEC | 第40-41页 |
| ·Errors of Vp2 in CLEC | 第41-42页 |
| ·Summary | 第42-44页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅴ ANALYSIS AND DISSUSSION | 第44-59页 |
| ·Learning to express event-frames in English | 第44-48页 |
| ·The linguistic encoding of path | 第48-50页 |
| ·Students' expressions of event-frames | 第50-56页 |
| ·Deictic path verbs | 第50-51页 |
| ·The so-called directional complement verbs | 第51-54页 |
| ·General path verbs | 第54-56页 |
| ·Discussion | 第56-59页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅵ CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS | 第59-62页 |
| ·Findings | 第59-60页 |
| ·Implications for L2 verbs teaching research | 第60页 |
| ·Limitations of the study | 第60-61页 |
| ·Recommendation for further research | 第61-62页 |
| References | 第62-67页 |
| Academic papers published during postgraduate study | 第67-68页 |
| Appendix 1:Errors of Vp1 in St2 from CLEC | 第68-76页 |
| Appendix 2:Errors of Vp2 in St2 from CLEC | 第76-81页 |
