| Acknowledgements | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| 1.1 Background of The Research | 第12-13页 |
| 1.2 Significance of The Research | 第13-14页 |
| 1.3 Research Questions | 第14页 |
| 1.4 Research Methods | 第14-15页 |
| 1.5 Structure of The Research | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第16-24页 |
| 2.1 Previous Reviews on English Reading Difficulties at Home and Abroad | 第16-18页 |
| 2.1.1 Previous Reviews on English Reading Difficulties Abroad | 第16-17页 |
| 2.1.2 Previous Reviews on English Reading Difficulties at Home | 第17-18页 |
| 2.2 Previous Studies on Vocabulary Difficulty | 第18-22页 |
| 2.2.1 Reasons for Vocabulary Difficulty in Reading | 第19-21页 |
| 2.2.2 Previous Studies on Coping with Vocabulary Difficulty | 第21-22页 |
| 2.3 Previous Studies on the Application of Schema Theory in Vocabulary Acquisition | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Basis of This Research | 第24-28页 |
| 3.1 A Sketch of Schema and Schema Theory | 第24-25页 |
| 3.2 The Classification of Schema | 第25-26页 |
| 3.2.1 Linguistic Schema | 第25页 |
| 3.2.2 Content Schema | 第25-26页 |
| 3.2.3 Contextual Schema | 第26页 |
| 3.3 Schema Absence and Schema Activation | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter Four Research Design | 第28-50页 |
| 4.1 Research Objectives | 第28页 |
| 4.2 Research Subjects | 第28-29页 |
| 4.3 Research Instruments | 第29-31页 |
| 4.3.1 Questionnaires | 第29-30页 |
| 4.3.2 Reading Comprehension Tests | 第30-31页 |
| 4.4 Research Procedures | 第31-48页 |
| 4.4.1 Teaching Material | 第31页 |
| 4.4.2 Pre-questionnaire and Pre-test | 第31-32页 |
| 4.4.3 Post-questionnaire and Post-test | 第32-33页 |
| 4.4.4 The Traditional Teaching Model Applied to Deal With Vocabulary Difficultyin Control Class | 第33-34页 |
| 4.4.5 The Schema Theory- Based Methods Applied to Process Vocabulary Difficultyin the Experimental Class | 第34-48页 |
| 4.5 Data Collection | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter Five Results and Discussion | 第50-68页 |
| 5.1 The Analysis of Data | 第50-65页 |
| 5.1.1 The Results of Students’ Questionnaires | 第50-60页 |
| 5.1.2 The Results of Pre-test on Reading in EC and CC | 第60-61页 |
| 5.1.3 The Results of Pre-test and Post-test in EC | 第61-62页 |
| 5.1.4 The Results of Pre-test and Post-test in CC | 第62-63页 |
| 5.1.5 The Results of Post-test on Reading in EC and CC | 第63-65页 |
| 5.2 Discussion of the Experimental Results | 第65-68页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第68-72页 |
| 6.1 Major Findings of This Research | 第68-69页 |
| 6.2 Implication of This Research | 第69页 |
| 6.3 The Limitation and the Future Development of the Research | 第69-72页 |
| Bibliography | 第72-76页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ Students’ Pre-questionnaire | 第76-78页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ Students’ Post-questionnaire | 第78-81页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ The Pre-test on Reading | 第81-87页 |
| Appendix Ⅳ The Post-test on Reading | 第87-94页 |
| Appendix Ⅴ The Comparison of the Results of Pre-test and Post-test on Reading in EC and CC | 第94-97页 |
