| Anstract (in English) | 第1-9页 |
| Anstract (in Chinese) | 第9-11页 |
| List of Tables | 第11-12页 |
| List of Figures | 第12-13页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第13-15页 |
| Introduction | 第15-20页 |
| ·Significance of the Present Study | 第16-18页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第18页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第20-44页 |
| ·Views of English Prepositions | 第20-23页 |
| ·Definition of Preposition | 第20-21页 |
| ·Significance of Preposition | 第21-22页 |
| ·Preposition Learning of Chinese English Learners | 第22-23页 |
| ·English Prepositions Studied by Linguists from Different Perspectives | 第23-27页 |
| ·Traditional Grammar Study of Prepositions | 第23页 |
| ·Cognitive Study of English Prepositions | 第23-25页 |
| ·Strueturalist and Functionalist Study of English Prepositions | 第25-26页 |
| ·Comments on the above Study of English Prepositions | 第26-27页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis | 第27-29页 |
| ·Error Analysis | 第29-33页 |
| ·Errors | 第30页 |
| ·Definition of Errors in the Present Study | 第30-32页 |
| ·Prepositional Errors and Previous Studies of Prepositional Errors | 第32-33页 |
| ·Corpus Approach and Computer-assisted Error Analysis | 第33-44页 |
| ·Computer-assisted Error Analysis | 第34-35页 |
| ·Computer-assisted Error Analysis versus Traditional Error Analysis | 第35-37页 |
| ·Corpus | 第37-38页 |
| ·Learner Corpus | 第38-39页 |
| ·Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching | 第39-41页 |
| ·Corpus-based Study in China | 第41-42页 |
| ·Prepositional Use in Chinese Learner English Corpus | 第42-44页 |
| Chapter Two Methodology | 第44-54页 |
| ·Principles of Corpus-based Studies | 第44-46页 |
| ·Corpus Construction and the CLEC | 第46-47页 |
| ·Data Source | 第47页 |
| ·Error Categorization | 第47-50页 |
| ·Error Tags | 第50-51页 |
| ·Retrieval Software Tool-Concapp | 第51-54页 |
| Chapter Three Results and Discussion | 第54-71页 |
| ·Results | 第54-56页 |
| ·Description of Major Error Patterns of Each Preposition | 第56-64页 |
| ·Preposition of | 第59页 |
| ·Preposition in | 第59-60页 |
| ·Preposition for | 第60页 |
| ·Preposition to | 第60-61页 |
| ·Preposition on | 第61-62页 |
| ·Preposition with | 第62页 |
| ·Preposition from | 第62-63页 |
| ·Preposition at | 第63页 |
| ·Preposition by | 第63-64页 |
| ·Preposition about | 第64页 |
| ·Discussion about Causes of Prepositional Errors | 第64-71页 |
| ·First Language Interference | 第65-68页 |
| ·Intraligual Interference | 第68-69页 |
| ·Overgeneralization | 第69页 |
| ·Ignorance of Prepositional Collocation Constructions | 第69-71页 |
| Chapter Four Conclusion and Implications | 第71-79页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第71-72页 |
| ·The Pedagogical Implication of the Present Study | 第72-77页 |
| ·Employing Corpus to Facilitate EFL Teaching | 第72-74页 |
| ·Enhancing Awareness of Prepositional Collocations | 第74-75页 |
| ·Learning Prepositional Collocations in Comparison with the Chinese Use | 第75页 |
| ·Expanding Learners' Collocational Knowledge | 第75-76页 |
| ·Employing Error Analysis to Facilitate Preposition Learning | 第76-77页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Research | 第77-79页 |
| Bibliography | 第79-83页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第83-84页 |
| 学位论文评阅及答辩情况表 | 第84页 |