| Acknowledgements | 第3-4页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第4页 |
| Introduction | 第7-8页 |
| Chapter One The Nature of Reading | 第8-11页 |
| 1．1 Historical perspectives of reading | 第8-9页 |
| 1．2 Reading comprehension | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter Two Variables That Affect Reading Ability | 第11-14页 |
| 2．1 Single-component approach to understanding reading ability | 第11-12页 |
| 2．2 Multiple-component approach to understanding reading ability | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter Three Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension | 第14-27页 |
| 3．1 The Role of Vocabulary in ESL/EFL Instruction | 第14-15页 |
| 3．2 What Does It Mean to Know a Word? | 第15-21页 |
| 3．2．1 Word Knowledge Framework | 第17-18页 |
| 3．2．2 The Multifaceted View of Word Knowledge | 第18-19页 |
| 3．2．3 Breadth and Depth of Word Knowledge | 第19-21页 |
| 3．3 Relationship Between Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension | 第21-27页 |
| 3．3．1 Vocabulary and Text Readability | 第21-23页 |
| 3．3．2 Word Association Knowledge and Reading | 第23-25页 |
| 3．3．3 Activating Lexical Association to Facilitate Learning | 第25-27页 |
| Chapter Four Text Structure and Reading Comprehension | 第27-40页 |
| 4．1 Macrostructure and Superstructure | 第27-28页 |
| 4．2 Schema theory | 第28-35页 |
| 4．2．1 Formal schema in second language comprehension | 第30-31页 |
| 4．2．2 The Effect of Formal Schemata on Comprehension | 第31-32页 |
| 4．2．3 The Structure Strategy | 第32-35页 |
| 4．2．3．1 Text Structure | 第32-34页 |
| 4．2．3．2 Evidence that text structure affects reading | 第34-35页 |
| 4．3 Vocabulary, Text Structure and Memory | 第35-38页 |
| 4．3．1 L2 Readers'Text Comprehension and Memory | 第35-37页 |
| 4．3．2 Memory as Information Processing | 第37页 |
| 4．3．3 Automatic processing | 第37-38页 |
| 4．3．4 Hierarchies | 第38页 |
| 4．3．5 Retrieval Cues | 第38页 |
| 4．4 The Impact of Word Association Knowledge and Text Structure on Reading Comprehension | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter Five Experiment | 第40-56页 |
| 5．1 Hypothesis | 第40页 |
| 5．2 Method | 第40-43页 |
| 5．2．1 Subjects | 第40页 |
| 5．2．2 Research Instruments | 第40-43页 |
| 5．3 Testing scoring | 第43-45页 |
| 5．3．1 The discrimination of the items | 第43页 |
| 5．3．2 Scoring of the Vocabulary Size | 第43-44页 |
| 5．3．3 Scoring of the Word Association Knowledge Test | 第44页 |
| 5．3．4 Scoring of the Reading Comprehension Test | 第44页 |
| 5．3．5 Scoring the Text Structure Completion | 第44-45页 |
| 5．3．6 Scoring of the composition | 第45页 |
| 5．4 Findings and Analysis | 第45-52页 |
| 5．4．1 Descriptive Statistics of the test | 第45页 |
| 5．4．2 The Correlations Matrix | 第45-46页 |
| 5．4．3 Analysis of Variance | 第46-48页 |
| 5．4．4 Multiple Regression | 第48-52页 |
| 5．5 Analysis of the questionnaire | 第52-53页 |
| 5．6 Analysis of the composition | 第53-56页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第56-58页 |
| Bibliography | 第58-62页 |
| Appendix | 第62-71页 |
