| Acknowledgements | 第1-10页 |
| Abstract in English | 第10-14页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第14-17页 |
| Lists of initials in the dissertation | 第17-18页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第18-24页 |
| ·Collocation and vocabulary learning | 第18-20页 |
| ·Collocation and language learning | 第20-22页 |
| ·Layout of the dissertation | 第22-24页 |
| 2. Collocation study in linguistic context | 第24-43页 |
| ·Collocational study before Firth | 第24-25页 |
| ·A Firthian approach to collocation study | 第25-33页 |
| ·Firth | 第25-27页 |
| ·Neo-Firthians study | 第27-33页 |
| ·Halliday, Halliday and Hasan | 第27-30页 |
| ·McIntosh | 第30-31页 |
| ·Sinclair | 第31-33页 |
| ·A semantic approach to collocation study | 第33-36页 |
| ·A grammar-integrated approach to collocation study | 第36-39页 |
| ·Summary | 第39-43页 |
| 3. Definitions and Related concepts | 第43-58页 |
| ·Definitions of collocation | 第43-45页 |
| ·Related concepts | 第45-48页 |
| ·Free combinations, collocations and idioms | 第45-47页 |
| ·Collocation and colligation | 第47-48页 |
| ·Properties of collocations | 第48-52页 |
| ·Arbitrariness | 第48-49页 |
| ·Likelihood | 第49-51页 |
| ·Frequency | 第51-52页 |
| ·Information content and collocability | 第52-53页 |
| ·Types of collocations | 第53-57页 |
| ·Grammatical collocations and lexical collocations | 第53-55页 |
| ·Open collocations and restricted collocations | 第55-56页 |
| ·Strong and weak collocations | 第56页 |
| ·Other types | 第56-57页 |
| ·Summary | 第57-58页 |
| 4. Collocation study in language acquisition context | 第58-76页 |
| ·Collocation and language acquisition | 第58-60页 |
| ·Collocation and vocabulary acquisition | 第60-64页 |
| ·Collocation in vocabulary | 第60-62页 |
| ·Collocation and word meaning | 第62-64页 |
| ·Collocational errors | 第64-65页 |
| ·Evaluation of collocation studies | 第65-74页 |
| ·Collocational errors and their causes | 第66-68页 |
| ·Collocation and writing quality | 第68-69页 |
| ·Corpus-based study on collocation | 第69-71页 |
| ·The teaching of collocations | 第71-72页 |
| ·Collocational and lexical development | 第72-74页 |
| ·Situating this study within previous experimental work | 第74-76页 |
| 5. A corpus-based study: Findings and Implication | 第76-105页 |
| ·Problems identified in advanced learners’writing | 第76-78页 |
| ·A corpus-based approach | 第78-79页 |
| ·Learner corpora and corpus used in this study | 第79-83页 |
| ·Learner corpora | 第79-80页 |
| ·Corpus used for this study | 第80-83页 |
| ·Causes and classifications of errors | 第83-87页 |
| ·An analysis of [cc3] and [cc4] | 第87-95页 |
| ·[cc3]: verb-noun collocational errors | 第87-91页 |
| ·Selection of [cc3] for this study | 第87-88页 |
| ·Composition of [cc3] | 第88-89页 |
| ·Findings about [cc3] | 第89-91页 |
| ·[cc4]: adjective-noun collocational errors | 第91-95页 |
| ·Selection of [cc4] for this study | 第91-92页 |
| ·Composition of [cc4] | 第92-93页 |
| ·Findings about [cc4] | 第93-95页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications | 第95-101页 |
| ·Teaching collocations to minimize L1 influence | 第95-97页 |
| ·Adopting an integrated approach to teaching collocations | 第97-99页 |
| ·Exploring collocations in writing | 第99-100页 |
| ·Applying corpora in language teaching | 第100-101页 |
| ·Suggestions for further study | 第101-104页 |
| ·Collocational use and collocation knowledge development in CLEC | 第102-103页 |
| ·CIA between CLEC and LOCNESS | 第103-104页 |
| ·Summary | 第104-105页 |
| 6. Conclusion | 第105-108页 |
| Appendixes | 第108-129页 |
| Bibliography | 第129-142页 |
