| Abstract | 第1-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| List of Tables | 第9-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-16页 |
| ·Objective of the study | 第10页 |
| ·Rationale | 第10-15页 |
| ·Theoretical importance of phonological research | 第10-12页 |
| ·Practical importance of phonological awareness research | 第12-15页 |
| ·General research questions | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第16-28页 |
| ·Definitions | 第16-19页 |
| ·Phonological awareness | 第16-18页 |
| ·Syllable awareness | 第18页 |
| ·Onset-rime awareness | 第18页 |
| ·Phoneme (or phonemic) Awareness | 第18-19页 |
| ·The Relationship between ways of measurement of phonological awareness | 第19-21页 |
| ·Phonological awareness and its association with reading | 第21-22页 |
| ·Different linguistic levels of phonological awareness and their relations to reading ability | 第22-26页 |
| ·The importance of phoneme awareness | 第23-24页 |
| ·The importance of onset-rime awareness | 第24页 |
| ·The importance of syllable awareness | 第24-25页 |
| ·The Phonological Representation Hypothesis | 第25-26页 |
| ·Problems unresolved and the specific questions of the present study | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework | 第28-37页 |
| ·Theories of word recognition | 第28-36页 |
| ·Dual-route Model | 第29-31页 |
| ·Modified Dual Route Models | 第31-33页 |
| ·Analogy Model and Connectionist Model | 第33页 |
| ·Self-Teaching Hypothesis | 第33-34页 |
| ·The heterogeneity of phonological awareness | 第34-36页 |
| ·Research hypotheses | 第36-37页 |
| Chapter 4 Experiment design, data collection and data analysis | 第37-46页 |
| ·Participants | 第37页 |
| ·Instruments | 第37-38页 |
| ·Procedures | 第38-40页 |
| ·Reading ability tests | 第38页 |
| ·Short-term memory test | 第38页 |
| ·Phonological awareness tests | 第38-40页 |
| ·Variables | 第40页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第40页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第40-46页 |
| Chapter 5 Discussion | 第46-52页 |
| ·Discussion | 第46-49页 |
| ·General Conclusion | 第49页 |
| ·Implications for phonological awareness instruction | 第49-50页 |
| ·Limitations | 第50-51页 |
| ·Suggestions for further study | 第51-52页 |
| References | 第52-59页 |
| Appendix 1 Reading ability test | 第59-66页 |
| Appendix 2 Short-term memory test | 第66-68页 |
| Appendix 3 Phonological awareness test | 第68-82页 |
| Acknowledgments | 第82页 |
