| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract in English | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-16页 |
| ·Brief Introduction to Passive Construction | 第10页 |
| ·Purpose and Scope of the Study | 第10-11页 |
| ·Theoretical Background | 第11-14页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis | 第11-12页 |
| ·Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis | 第12-13页 |
| ·Integrated Contrastive Model | 第13-14页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第16-23页 |
| ·Passives in English | 第16-17页 |
| ·Passive Variants in English | 第16-17页 |
| ·Classification of English Passives | 第17页 |
| ·Passives in Chinese | 第17-19页 |
| ·Passive Variants in Chinese | 第17-19页 |
| ·Classification of Chinese Passives | 第19页 |
| ·Previous Studies Concerning Passives in English and Chinese | 第19-21页 |
| ·Limitations of the Previous Studies | 第21-23页 |
| Chapter 3 Contrastive Analysis: A Predictive Approach | 第23-43页 |
| ·Introduction to Corpus Linguistics | 第23-24页 |
| ·Corpus-based Approach vs. Corpus-driven Approach | 第23-24页 |
| ·Major Differences | 第24页 |
| ·Materials | 第24-25页 |
| ·Features of Chinese and English Passives: A Contrastive Study | 第25-36页 |
| ·Similarities | 第25页 |
| ·Major Differences | 第25-36页 |
| ·Overall Frequencies | 第26-31页 |
| ·Long Passives | 第31-32页 |
| ·Syntactic Functions | 第32-33页 |
| ·Semantic Properties | 第33-34页 |
| ·Pragmatic Features | 第34-36页 |
| ·Correspondences and Divergences between English and Chinese Passives | 第36-41页 |
| ·English Equivalents of Chinese Passive Constructions | 第37-39页 |
| ·Chinese Equivalents of English be Passives and get Passives | 第39-41页 |
| ·Summary | 第41页 |
| ·Hypotheses | 第41-43页 |
| Chapter 4 Integrating CA with CIA: A Diagnostic Approach | 第43-51页 |
| ·Material and Method | 第43-44页 |
| ·Data Analysis and Results | 第44-48页 |
| ·Chinese EFL Learners’Overuse of English Passive Constructions | 第44-45页 |
| ·Chinese EFL Learners’Overuse of English Agentful Passives | 第45-47页 |
| ·Blurring in Chinese EFL learners’Use of English be Passives and get Passives | 第47-48页 |
| ·Possible Explanations for the Features of Passives in Learner Corpus | 第48-50页 |
| ·Language Transfer | 第48-49页 |
| ·Deeper Reason: Lingustic Universality and Language Specificity | 第49-50页 |
| ·Summary | 第50-51页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusions and Implications | 第51-53页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Current Work | 第51页 |
| ·Padegogical Implications | 第51-52页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study and Further Suggestions | 第52-53页 |
| Bibliography | 第53-57页 |
| Appendix Essays Samples | 第57-61页 |
