| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | 第1-6页 |
| LIST OF ABBREVIATION | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-11页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第11-18页 |
| LIST OF FIGURES | 第18-19页 |
| LIST OF TABLES | 第19-20页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第20-30页 |
| ·Background of the Present Study | 第20-24页 |
| ·The Present Study | 第24-30页 |
| ·Rationale of the Present Study | 第24-26页 |
| ·Significance of the Present Study | 第26-27页 |
| ·Organization of the Present Study | 第27-28页 |
| ·Summary of the Research Design | 第28-30页 |
| ·Empirical Study One: The Effects of FLA and its Related Factors on SLA | 第28-29页 |
| ·Empirical Study Two: WM, Instructional Treatment and the Acquisition of Simple Syntactic Rules | 第29页 |
| ·Empirical Study Three: FLA, WM and the Acquisition of Comple Syntactic Rules | 第29-30页 |
| CHAPTER TWO FOREIGN LANGUAGE APTITUDE AND SLA | 第30-50页 |
| ·Introduction | 第30页 |
| ·IDs and SLA | 第30-34页 |
| ·Core factors in IDs | 第30-32页 |
| ·IDs in the Models of SLA | 第32-34页 |
| (1) The Good Language Learner Model | 第32页 |
| (2) The Monitor Model | 第32-33页 |
| (3) The Carroll’s Interactional Model of School Learning | 第33页 |
| (4) The Disjunctive Model | 第33-34页 |
| (5) The General Model | 第34页 |
| (6) The Socio-educational Model | 第34页 |
| ·FLA and SLA | 第34-48页 |
| ·Why FLA? | 第34-37页 |
| ·The Concept and Characteristics of FLA | 第37-38页 |
| ·Language Aptitude Tests | 第38-41页 |
| ·The Modern Language Aptitude Test | 第38-40页 |
| ·The Pimsleur Language Aptitude Battery | 第40-41页 |
| ·The Uses of Language Aptitude Tests | 第41-42页 |
| ·FLA and Intelligence | 第42-44页 |
| ·FLA and SLA Processes | 第44-48页 |
| ·Skehan’s Processing Stage Model of Aptitude | 第44-46页 |
| ·Robinson’s Aptitude Complex/Aptitude Differentiation Model of Aptitude | 第46-48页 |
| ·The Need for Further Studies in FLA | 第48-50页 |
| CHAPTER THREE WORKING MEMORY AND SLA | 第50-64页 |
| ·Introduction | 第50页 |
| ·Why Working Memory? | 第50-52页 |
| ·Contents of WM | 第52-54页 |
| ·WM and SLA Processes | 第54-55页 |
| ·WM and Language Acquisition | 第55-59页 |
| ·Working Memory Tests | 第59-61页 |
| ·Language Aptitude, Working Memory, Teaching Methods and SLA | 第61-63页 |
| ·The Need for Further Studies in WM | 第63-64页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR WORKING MEMORY, SENTENCE COMPLEXITY AND SLA IN TERMS OF LINGUISTIC THEORIES | 第64-71页 |
| ·Introduction | 第64页 |
| ·Sentence Complexity and Acquisition Difficulty | 第64-65页 |
| ·The NPAHH and Acquisition Difficulty | 第65-66页 |
| ·The MDH and Acquisition Difficulty | 第66-68页 |
| ·The SPLT and Sentence Processing Difficulty | 第68-69页 |
| ·The FGDH and Sentence Processing Difficulty | 第69页 |
| ·The OPLL and Sentence Processing Difficulty | 第69-70页 |
| ·The Need for Further Studies in WM and the Processing of Complex Sentences | 第70-71页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE LITERATURE SUMMARY AND RESEARCH QUESTIONS | 第71-76页 |
| ·Literature Summary | 第71-73页 |
| ·The Issues to be Addressed Further in the Present Study | 第73-74页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第74-76页 |
| CHAPTER SIX FOREIGN LANGUAGE APTITUDE AND SLA | 第76-94页 |
| ·Introduction | 第76-77页 |
| ·Method for the Study | 第77-80页 |
| ·Subjects | 第77-78页 |
| ·Instruments | 第78-79页 |
| ·Language Aptitude Test | 第78页 |
| ·Language Proficiency Tests | 第78页 |
| ·Learning Strategy Measurement | 第78-79页 |
| ·Data Collection Procedures | 第79页 |
| ·Data Analysis Procedures | 第79-80页 |
| ·Results and Analysis | 第80-91页 |
| ·The Relationship between FLA and L2 Proficiency (First Investigation) | 第80-84页 |
| ·The results of the correlational analysis for the low learners | 第80-82页 |
| ·The results of the correlational analysis for the intermediate learners | 第82-84页 |
| ·The Stability of FLA | 第84-85页 |
| ·The Relationships among FLA, Learning Strategy and L2 Proficiency(Second Investigation) | 第85-88页 |
| ·The Relationships among FLA, Gender and L2 Proficiency | 第88-90页 |
| ·The Effect of FLA and Gender on L2 Proficiency | 第88-89页 |
| ·The Effect of Gender on FLA | 第89-90页 |
| ·A Model of the Relationships among FLA, Gender and L2 Proficiency | 第90-91页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第91-94页 |
| ·Summary of the Study | 第91-92页 |
| ·Limitations and Directions for Future Study | 第92-94页 |
| CHAPTER SEVEN WORKING MEMORY, INSTRUCTIONAL TREATMENT THE ACQUISTION OF SIMPLE SYNTACTIC RULES | 第94-115页 |
| ·Introduction | 第94-95页 |
| ·Method for the Study | 第95-101页 |
| ·Research Design | 第95页 |
| ·Subjects | 第95-96页 |
| ·Instructional Treatments | 第96-97页 |
| ·Explicit-deductive Instruction | 第96页 |
| ·Implicit-inductive Instruction | 第96-97页 |
| ·Target Structure to be Instructed | 第97页 |
| ·Instruments | 第97-100页 |
| ·Computerized Chinese Reading Span Test | 第98-99页 |
| ·Test of Relative Clauses | 第99-100页 |
| ·Scoring and Data Analysis Procedures | 第100-101页 |
| ·Results and Analysis | 第101-112页 |
| ·The Acquisition Difficulty of Four Types of Sentences | 第101-104页 |
| ·The Role of WM in the Acquisition of Syntactic Rules | 第104-108页 |
| ·The Effects of Instructional Treatment on the Acquisition of Syntactic Rules | 第108-109页 |
| ·The Interactive Effect of WM and Instructional Treatment | 第109-112页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第112-115页 |
| ·Summary of the Study | 第112-113页 |
| ·Limitations and Directions for Future Study | 第113-115页 |
| CHAPTER EIGHT WORKING MEMORY, FOREIGN LANGUAGE APTITUDE THE ACQUISITION OF COMPLEX SYNTACTIC RULES | 第115-135页 |
| ·Introduction | 第115-116页 |
| ·Method for the Study | 第116-119页 |
| ·Subjects | 第116-117页 |
| ·Instruments | 第117-118页 |
| ·Computerized Chinese Reading Span Test | 第117页 |
| ·Two Subsections of the MLAT: PA and WS | 第117页 |
| ·Translation Test of Complex Sentences | 第117-118页 |
| ·Data Collection and Processing Procedures | 第118-119页 |
| ·Results and Discussions | 第119-132页 |
| ·The Relationship Among WM, Analytic Ability and Rote Memory,and Their Respective Impact on the Acquisition of Complex Sentences | 第119-125页 |
| ·The Effect of Three Levels of WM on the Acquisition of Comple Sentences | 第125-128页 |
| ·The Interactive Effect of WM and Extraction Condition | 第128-132页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第132-135页 |
| ·Summary of the Study | 第132-133页 |
| ·Limitations and Direction for Future Study | 第133-135页 |
| CHAPTER NINE CONCLUSION | 第135-147页 |
| ·Summary of the present study | 第135-140页 |
| ·What have been dealt with in this study? | 第135-136页 |
| ·Why are these factors investigated in the three empirical studies? - A revisit | 第136-137页 |
| ·What have been found in the present study? | 第137-140页 |
| ·Implications | 第140-147页 |
| ·Theoretical Implications | 第140-143页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications | 第143-144页 |
| ·Limitations and Directions for Future Research | 第144-147页 |
| APPENDICES | 第147-156页 |
| Appendix A 汉语阅读广度测试句 | 第147-151页 |
| Appendix B 英语关系从句语法测试题 | 第151-154页 |
| Appendix C 英汉翻译测试卷 | 第154-156页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第156-167页 |
