| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-17页 |
| List of Figures | 第17-18页 |
| List of Tables | 第18-20页 |
| Abbreviations | 第20-21页 |
| Preface | 第21-22页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第22-39页 |
| ·Rationale and objectives of the study | 第22-26页 |
| ·Theoretical and pedagogical significance of the study | 第26-31页 |
| ·Overview | 第26-27页 |
| ·Mateirals development and evaluation | 第27-28页 |
| ·Teacher training and professional development | 第28-30页 |
| ·Curriculum development and innovation | 第30-31页 |
| ·Brief introduction of the Danyang project | 第31-35页 |
| ·Project overview | 第31页 |
| ·School setting | 第31-32页 |
| ·Expeirmental teachers and students | 第32-33页 |
| ·Textbooks | 第33-35页 |
| ·The mandated textbook | 第33-34页 |
| ·The expeirmental textbook | 第34-35页 |
| ·Defining key concepts | 第35-37页 |
| ·Outline of the dissertation | 第37-39页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第39-77页 |
| ·Overview | 第39页 |
| ·English language education in middle schools in China | 第39-53页 |
| ·Overview of English language education in China | 第39-40页 |
| ·Curriculum innovations in the past decades | 第40-43页 |
| ·"The Way" | 第43-49页 |
| ·The "traditional way" | 第43-45页 |
| ·Communicative language teaching in China | 第45-46页 |
| ·Task-based language teaching in China | 第46-48页 |
| ·Post-method or the eclectic approach | 第48页 |
| ·Summary | 第48-49页 |
| ·Middle school EFL teachers and teacher training effotrs | 第49-51页 |
| ·English language teaching mateirals in China | 第51-53页 |
| ·Language teaching mateirals research | 第53-58页 |
| ·Overview | 第53-54页 |
| ·Role of the textbook in language teaching | 第54-56页 |
| ·Role of the textbook in curricular innovations | 第56页 |
| ·English language textbooks and syllabus | 第56-58页 |
| ·Teacher beliefs in EFL textbooks | 第58-64页 |
| ·Findings and directions of teacher belief research | 第58-59页 |
| ·Methods in teacher belief research | 第59-60页 |
| ·Studies on teacher beliefs about textbooks | 第60-64页 |
| ·Teacher practices in textbook use | 第64-74页 |
| ·Overview | 第64-65页 |
| ·Teachers using textbooks | 第65-70页 |
| ·Teachers as mateirals selectors and adapters | 第65-67页 |
| ·Teachers as task users and designers | 第67-69页 |
| ·Teachers as textbook evaluators | 第69-70页 |
| ·Role of the textbook in EFL teacher development | 第70-74页 |
| ·Overview | 第70页 |
| ·Teacher autonomy in textbook use | 第70-72页 |
| ·Teacher expertise in textbook use | 第72-73页 |
| ·Textbooks as a teacher training tool | 第73-74页 |
| ·Implications and limitations of previous studies | 第74-76页 |
| ·Summary | 第76-77页 |
| Chapter 3 Methodology and Design | 第77-95页 |
| ·Overview | 第77页 |
| ·Research questions | 第77页 |
| ·Research design and procedures | 第77-79页 |
| ·Analytical rfamework | 第79页 |
| ·Data collection and analysis | 第79-93页 |
| ·Questionnaire | 第80-86页 |
| ·Objectives, target population and sample selection | 第80-81页 |
| ·Instrument design | 第81-84页 |
| ·Quality control and questionnaire organization | 第84页 |
| ·Survey procedures and questionnaire administration | 第84-85页 |
| ·Analytical procedures | 第85-86页 |
| ·Ethical concerns and limitations | 第86页 |
| ·Case study | 第86-93页 |
| ·The method | 第86-87页 |
| ·The case studies in this research | 第87页 |
| ·Participants and selection procedure | 第87-89页 |
| ·Data collection methods | 第89-91页 |
| ·Reliability and validity of the case studies | 第91页 |
| ·Ethical issues and limitations of the case studies | 第91-92页 |
| ·Analytical procedures | 第92-93页 |
| ·Summary | 第93-95页 |
| Chapter 4 The Big Picture: Teachers' Beliefs about and Practices with Textbooks in General (Questionnaire Results) | 第95-127页 |
| ·Overview | 第95页 |
| ·Demographic description of the respondents | 第95-99页 |
| ·Textbook use experience | 第99-101页 |
| ·Teacher training expeirence | 第101-106页 |
| ·Teachers' beliefs about and images for the English textbook | 第106-119页 |
| ·Routine / "common practice" of textbook use in teaching | 第119-125页 |
| ·Findings | 第125-127页 |
| Chapter 5 Case Study: Four Teachers at Work | 第127-177页 |
| ·Overview107 | 第127页 |
| ·Before the project (2009.5) | 第127-138页 |
| ·General introduction | 第127页 |
| ·Four teachers' personal profiles | 第127-130页 |
| ·Beliefs about language teaching and learning | 第130-132页 |
| ·Textbook use habit and views about textbooks | 第132-135页 |
| ·Self-evaluation | 第135-137页 |
| ·Contextual factors | 第137页 |
| ·Summary | 第137-138页 |
| ·The project implementation | 第138-140页 |
| ·The first year of the project (2009.9-2010.8) | 第138-139页 |
| ·The second year of the project (2010.9-2011.8) | 第139页 |
| ·The third year of the project (2011.9-2012.3) | 第139-140页 |
| ·Teacher involvement in the project | 第140-143页 |
| ·Alex | 第140-141页 |
| ·Judy | 第141-142页 |
| ·Frank | 第142页 |
| ·Lydia | 第142-143页 |
| ·Teacher beliefs about the textbook | 第143-149页 |
| ·Shared beliefs about the textbook | 第143页 |
| ·Individual beliefs about the textbook | 第143-147页 |
| ·Change of beliefs | 第147-149页 |
| ·Teachers' textbook use practice | 第149-173页 |
| ·Overview | 第149-150页 |
| ·Mateirals selection and adaptation | 第150-166页 |
| ·Using the mandated textbook | 第150-154页 |
| ·Using the expeirmental textbook | 第154-158页 |
| ·Individual expertise development | 第158-166页 |
| ·Task design | 第166-171页 |
| ·Textbook evaluation | 第171-173页 |
| ·Summary | 第173-177页 |
| Chapter 6 Findings and discussions | 第177-184页 |
| ·Overview | 第177页 |
| ·Middle school teachers' general beliefs about textbooks | 第177-178页 |
| ·Middle school teachers' general practices in textbook use | 第178-179页 |
| ·Rethinking the role of textbooks in middle school ELT innovations in China | 第179-181页 |
| ·Influencing factors in shaping and reshaping teachers' beliefs and practices in textbook use | 第181-183页 |
| ·Summary | 第183-184页 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusions | 第184-190页 |
| ·Implications of the study | 第184-187页 |
| ·Theoretical and methodological implications | 第184-185页 |
| ·Practical implications | 第185-187页 |
| ·Materials development | 第185-186页 |
| ·Teacher training programs | 第186页 |
| ·Curricular innovations | 第186-187页 |
| ·Summary | 第187页 |
| ·Limitations of the study | 第187-189页 |
| ·Insights for further researches | 第189-190页 |
| Bibliography | 第190-214页 |
| Appendix 1: Topic list of the mandated textbook Fun With English (Oxford English) | 第214-216页 |
| Appendix 2: Topic list of the experimental textbook | 第216-217页 |
| Appendix 3: National curriculum standard textbooks (for junior middle school) | 第217-218页 |
| Appendix 4: Quesitonnaire (English version) | 第218-221页 |
| Appendix 5: Questionnaire (Chinese version) | 第221-223页 |
| Appendix 6: Sample lesson materials | 第223-225页 |
| Appendix 7: Sample MT exercise sheet (in-house materials) | 第225-227页 |
| Appendix 8: Student report of out-of-class learning materials - needs analysis (September, 2009) | 第227-228页 |
| Appendix 9: Sample lesson materials | 第228-232页 |
| Appendix 10: Sample lesson materials 3 | 第232-234页 |
| Appendix 11: Sample lesson materials 4 | 第234-238页 |
| Appendix 12: Sample tasks in the mandated textbook and the experimental textbook | 第238-245页 |
| Appendix 13: Classroom activiites reported by two experimental teachers (An, 2011) | 第245-246页 |
| Appendix 14: Teacher task samples | 第246-247页 |
