| Acknowledgement | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-8页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第8-10页 |
| ·The relationship between language testing and teaching | 第8-9页 |
| ·The purpose of the thesis | 第9页 |
| ·The overview of the thesis | 第9-10页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretical Basis | 第10-15页 |
| ·Communicative testing approach | 第10-11页 |
| ·Three competences which combine to produce communicative competence | 第10-11页 |
| ·Communicative approach can and should be applied to vocabulary test | 第11-12页 |
| ·Test-takers' performance is under the influence of the testing method | 第12页 |
| ·Decontextualized vocabulary tests have already fallen out of favor among language teachers and testers | 第12-13页 |
| ·An analysis of the types of knowledge that contribute to contextual inferencing ability | 第13-15页 |
| ·Linguistic knowledge | 第13页 |
| ·World knowledge | 第13页 |
| ·Strategic knowledge | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter 3 Literature Review | 第15-19页 |
| ·An overview of vocabulary test | 第15-17页 |
| ·Vocabulary depth | 第15-16页 |
| ·Types of vocabulary test | 第16页 |
| ·The criticism of single-sentence vocabulary items | 第16-17页 |
| ·Contextualization: The case of TOFEL | 第17-19页 |
| ·A brief introduction on the role of contextualization played in TOFEL and the achievement made by Henning | 第17-18页 |
| ·What's new in the present study | 第18-19页 |
| Chapter 4 The Present Study | 第19-29页 |
| ·Research questions | 第19页 |
| ·Participants | 第19-20页 |
| ·Testing materials and methods | 第20-21页 |
| ·Selection of target words | 第21-23页 |
| ·The standard for choosing target words | 第21-22页 |
| ·An investigation of the target words chosen in CET 4 | 第22页 |
| ·An analysis of target words distribution in CET 4 | 第22-23页 |
| ·Guideline for choosing materials and target words in this study | 第23-25页 |
| ·Instruments | 第25-27页 |
| ·Analysis of students' process of undertaking the exam | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter 5 Findings and Results | 第29-38页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第29-35页 |
| ·Correlation analysis | 第29页 |
| ·2 Discrimination index | 第29-31页 |
| ·A comparison between the means of CVI and that of SVI | 第31-32页 |
| ·Reliability | 第32页 |
| ·The evaluation made by testees to the two types of the vocabulary items | 第32-35页 |
| ·Summary | 第35页 |
| ·Further analysis | 第35-38页 |
| ·Research on different types of items in CVI and their effects on students of different levels | 第35-37页 |
| ·The relationship between assurance and giving correct answer | 第37-38页 |
| Chapter 6 Implications and conclusions | 第38-42页 |
| ·Implications | 第38-40页 |
| ·Target words and materials | 第38-39页 |
| ·the language teachers' role | 第39-40页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第40页 |
| ·Limitations of the study | 第40-42页 |
| References | 第42-45页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ Frequency level of the words tested in CET | 第45-49页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ Frequency level of the words tested in experimental tests | 第49-50页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ Test papers used in the experiment | 第50-68页 |
