| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-12页 |
| LIST OF TABLES | 第12-13页 |
| LIST OF CHARTS | 第13-14页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第14-17页 |
| ·General description of the present study | 第14页 |
| ·Need for the present study | 第14-16页 |
| ·Overall structure of the thesis | 第16-17页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第17-33页 |
| ·Studies related to collocation | 第17-20页 |
| ·Definitions of collocation | 第17-19页 |
| ·Verb/noun collocations in the present study | 第19页 |
| ·Previous studies on collocation and verb/noun collocations | 第19-20页 |
| ·Error analysis | 第20-29页 |
| ·Background information on error analysis | 第21-22页 |
| ·Significance and functions of error analysis | 第22-23页 |
| ·Procedures of error analysis | 第23-29页 |
| ·Previous studies on collocation and collocational errors based on CLEC | 第29-32页 |
| ·Summary | 第32-33页 |
| CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY | 第33-44页 |
| ·A general description of CLEC | 第33-34页 |
| ·Verb/noun collocational errors investigated in the present study | 第34页 |
| ·Specific research questions | 第34-35页 |
| ·Procedures of the present study | 第35-42页 |
| ·Extracting cc3 errors | 第35页 |
| ·Describing and categorizing cc3 errors | 第35-38页 |
| ·Extracting wrongly used verbs and nouns | 第38页 |
| ·Diagnosing and categorizing cc3 errors | 第38-41页 |
| ·Counting and normalizing the numerical data | 第41-42页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第42-43页 |
| ·Summary | 第43-44页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 第44-79页 |
| ·Results of specific research questions | 第44-70页 |
| ·Results of research question 1 | 第49-55页 |
| ·Results of research question 2 | 第55-59页 |
| ·Results of research question 3 | 第59-65页 |
| ·Results of research question 4 | 第65-67页 |
| ·Results of research question 5 | 第67-69页 |
| ·Results of research question 6 | 第69-70页 |
| ·Discussion of results | 第70-78页 |
| ·Characteristics of Chinese EFL learners’verb/noun collocational errors — a general description | 第70-73页 |
| ·Characteristics of Chinese EFL learners’verb/noun collocational errors committed in their writing | 第73-75页 |
| ·Characteristics of the verbs and nouns that cause most problems to Chinese EFL learners’verb/noun collocations | 第75-78页 |
| ·Summary | 第78-79页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS | 第79-85页 |
| ·Raising students’awareness of verb/noun collocations | 第79-80页 |
| ·Increasing the verb/noun collocation input | 第80-81页 |
| ·Teaching and learning verb/noun collocations in comparison with the first language | 第81-83页 |
| ·Applying corpora in language teaching and learning | 第83-84页 |
| ·Summary | 第84-85页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSIONS | 第85-88页 |
| REFERENCES | 第88-93页 |
| APPENDIX A: Wrong Coding Type of Cc3 in CLEC | 第93-95页 |
| APPENDIX B: Verbs and Nouns that Cause Problems to Chinese EFL Learners’ Verb/Noun Collocations | 第95-100页 |
