| ACKOWLEDGEMENT | 第1-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| CONTENTS | 第11-13页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第13-16页 |
| ·A Brief Review of Error Studies | 第13-14页 |
| ·Latest Development on Error Analysis and Significance of the Research | 第14-15页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第15-16页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW & THEORETICAL BACKGROUND | 第16-36页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis | 第16-18页 |
| ·Error Analysis | 第18-30页 |
| ·Comparison of EA with CA | 第18-19页 |
| ·Basic Assumptions | 第19-20页 |
| ·Analytical Procedures | 第20-30页 |
| ·The Theory of Interlanguage | 第30-32页 |
| ·The Definition of Interlanguage | 第31页 |
| ·The Characteristics of Interlanguage | 第31-32页 |
| ·Weakness and Insufficiency of Error Analysis | 第32-34页 |
| ·Computer-assisted error analysis | 第34-36页 |
| CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH DESIGN | 第36-43页 |
| ·Description and classification of Errors | 第36-39页 |
| ·Errors at the substance level | 第36-37页 |
| ·Errors at the lexical level | 第37页 |
| ·Errors at the grammatical level | 第37页 |
| ·Errors at the cohesive and coherent level | 第37-38页 |
| ·Errors at the level of idiomatic expressions | 第38-39页 |
| ·Quantitative Research | 第39-43页 |
| ·Background information about the participants and samples | 第39-40页 |
| ·Instruments | 第40页 |
| ·Judges | 第40页 |
| ·Procedure | 第40-43页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR FINDINGS | 第43-53页 |
| ·Frequency and Distribution of Errors | 第43页 |
| ·The ten top errors of the learners | 第43-44页 |
| ·Difference Between the High-Mark and the Low-Mark Compositions | 第44-45页 |
| ·Comparison of Sample 2 and Sample 3 | 第45-47页 |
| ·A Case Study for Errors of BE | 第47-53页 |
| ·The errors of BE in declarative sentences | 第48-50页 |
| ·The errors of be in interrogative sentences | 第50-51页 |
| ·Be +Not (Never...)+Verb Pattern in Negative Sentences | 第51-52页 |
| ·Be used in sentences despite the agreement with subject | 第52-53页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE DISCUSSION | 第53-67页 |
| ·Overview | 第53-54页 |
| ·Analysis of the Sources of Error | 第54-63页 |
| ·Causes Related to Language Acquisition and Learning | 第55-56页 |
| ·Causes Related to Cognition | 第56-58页 |
| ·Causes Related to Application of Strategies | 第58-62页 |
| ·Causes Related to Other Factors | 第62-63页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications | 第63-67页 |
| ·Implications for EFL vocabulary teaching | 第63-64页 |
| ·Implications for EFL writing | 第64-65页 |
| ·Implications for teaching "BE" | 第65-67页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION | 第67-69页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第69-73页 |
| APPENDIX | 第73-74页 |
