| Acknowledgements | 第1-3页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第3-5页 |
| Abstract in English | 第5-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-14页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第14-31页 |
| ·The Definition of Reading and Reading Comprehension | 第14-15页 |
| ·The Research on Reading and Reading Teaching | 第15-16页 |
| ·The Period of research before 1960s | 第15页 |
| ·The Period of research after 1960s | 第15-16页 |
| ·The Present Reading Teaching of College English in China | 第16-18页 |
| ·The Requirements of Developing Students' Reading Ability | 第16-17页 |
| ·Problems in College English Reading Teaching | 第17-18页 |
| ·The Necessity to Reform the College English Reading Teaching | 第18-19页 |
| ·Traditional Theories and Their Application to Reading Teaching | 第19-31页 |
| ·Bottom-up Model | 第19-21页 |
| ·Top-down Model | 第21-24页 |
| ·Interactive Model | 第24-27页 |
| ·Schema Theory | 第27-31页 |
| Chapter Three Theories Contributing to Discourse-based Reading Model | 第31-52页 |
| ·The Nature of Discourse and Discourse Comprehension | 第31-33页 |
| ·Cohesion in Discourse | 第33-38页 |
| ·Reference | 第33-35页 |
| ·Discourse Markers | 第35-38页 |
| ·Coherence in Discourse | 第38-41页 |
| ·Theme/Rheme of Discourse | 第39-40页 |
| ·Text Types/Rhetorical Structure | 第40-41页 |
| ·Context of Discourse | 第41-49页 |
| ·Situational Context | 第42-44页 |
| ·Co-text and Cultural Context | 第44-46页 |
| ·The Principles of "Local Interpretation" | 第46-47页 |
| ·Presupposition in Context | 第47页 |
| ·Implicature in Context | 第47-48页 |
| ·Inference from the Context | 第48-49页 |
| ·Meaning of Discourse | 第49-52页 |
| Chapter Four Application of Discourse-analysis Reading Approach | 第52-63页 |
| ·Discourse-based Reading Comprehension | 第52-55页 |
| ·Discourse Encoding | 第53-54页 |
| ·Discourse Decoding | 第54-55页 |
| ·Students' Problem in Discourse Reading | 第55-56页 |
| ·Workable Solutions | 第56-63页 |
| ·Analysis of Complicated Sentences | 第56-57页 |
| ·Analysis of Cohesion | 第57-59页 |
| ·Identification of Reference and Substitution | 第57页 |
| ·Identification of Ellipsis | 第57页 |
| ·Identification of Lexical Relationship | 第57-58页 |
| ·Identification of Discourse Markers | 第58-59页 |
| ·Analysis of Global Discourse | 第59-61页 |
| ·Studying the Functional Value of Sentence | 第59页 |
| ·Identifying Rhetorical Structure/Text Type | 第59-60页 |
| ·Identifying the Theme | 第60页 |
| ·Inferring from the Context | 第60-61页 |
| ·Making Prediction | 第61页 |
| ·Providing Background Knowledge | 第61-63页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第63-67页 |
| Bibliography | 第67-69页 |
