| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第8-12页 |
| ·Research Background | 第8-9页 |
| ·Purpose of the Study | 第9-10页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第10页 |
| ·Layout of the Paper | 第10-12页 |
| Ⅱ. Literature Review | 第12-26页 |
| ·Classification of Vocabulary | 第12-14页 |
| ·Paul Nation's Four-category Classification | 第12-13页 |
| ·Beck, McKeown and Kucan's (2002)Three-tier Model Classification of Vocabulary | 第13-14页 |
| ·Academic vocabulary | 第14-18页 |
| ·The Definition of Academic Vocabulary | 第14页 |
| ·Features and Functions of Academic Vocabulary | 第14-16页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Academic Vocabulary | 第16-18页 |
| ·Word Frequency List | 第18-20页 |
| ·The Rationale of Using Word Frequency List | 第18页 |
| ·Criteria Judging the Usefulness of a Word Frequency List | 第18-20页 |
| ·AWL—Academic Word List | 第20-26页 |
| ·General Introduction of AWL | 第20页 |
| ·AWL Selection | 第20-21页 |
| ·The Sublists | 第21-22页 |
| ·The Academic Corpus | 第22-23页 |
| ·Previous Studies | 第23-26页 |
| Ⅲ. Methodology | 第26-30页 |
| ·The Compilation of the Corpus | 第26-27页 |
| ·The software for Analysis | 第27-28页 |
| ·Wordsmith Tool V.3.0 | 第27-28页 |
| ·Vocabulary Profiler | 第28页 |
| ·Procedure of Analysis | 第28-30页 |
| Ⅳ. Results and Discussions | 第30-42页 |
| ·Frequency Analysis of AWL words in Applied Linguistics Theses | 第30-32页 |
| ·AWL Words' Percentage of Coverage | 第30-31页 |
| ·Comparison with Previous Studies | 第31-32页 |
| ·Frequently Used AWL families in Applied Linguistics Theses | 第32-40页 |
| ·Word families' Distribution in Coxhead's Ten Sublists | 第34-36页 |
| ·Compared to Vongpunivitch et al's Ten sublists in Their Top 100 list | 第36-37页 |
| ·V-N Collocations for High Frequency AWL Vocabulary | 第37-40页 |
| ·Frequently Used Non-AWL words in Applied Linguistics Theses | 第40-42页 |
| Ⅴ. Conclusions | 第42-45页 |
| ·Findings of This Research | 第42-43页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications | 第43-44页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions | 第44-45页 |
| Bibliography | 第45-49页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ The first 100 most frequently used word families in applied linguistics | 第49-50页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ 71 Non-AWL word families | 第50-51页 |
| Publications during MA Study | 第51-52页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第52-54页 |
