| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第4-6页 |
| Abstract in English | 第6-11页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第11-18页 |
| ·Research background | 第11-14页 |
| ·Purpose | 第14-15页 |
| ·Structure of the dissertation | 第15-18页 |
| 2 Literature Review | 第18-31页 |
| ·Different views of grammar and grammatical competence | 第18-22页 |
| ·Grammar | 第18-20页 |
| ·Different views of grammatical competence | 第20-22页 |
| ·Theories related to grammatical competence | 第22-28页 |
| ·Input theory | 第22-23页 |
| ·IL | 第23-25页 |
| ·Communicative competence | 第25-28页 |
| ·Summary | 第28-31页 |
| 3 Researches in Grammatical Competence | 第31-50页 |
| ·The present conditions of students' grammatical competence at college | 第31-43页 |
| ·Students' overall grammatical knowledge obtained from questionnaire | 第32-39页 |
| ·Students' grammatical performance in and after class | 第39-43页 |
| ·The present conditions of grammar teaching | 第43-47页 |
| ·Focusing on listening and speaking and wakening of grammar teaching in middle school | 第43-45页 |
| ·The present grammar teaching conditions at college | 第45-47页 |
| ·The problems resulting from lack of grammatical knowledge and poor grammatical competence | 第47-50页 |
| 4 The Applications of the Theories to the Development of Grammatical Competence | 第50-63页 |
| ·The applications of input theory | 第50-54页 |
| ·The applications of interlanguage theory | 第54-59页 |
| ·The applications of communicative competence | 第59-63页 |
| 5 Ways of Developing Grammatical Competence for Non-English Majors | 第63-73页 |
| ·Teacher-centered methods | 第63-66页 |
| ·Systematic grammar review | 第63-64页 |
| ·Deductive method | 第64-65页 |
| ·Inductive method | 第65页 |
| ·Systematic correction of errors | 第65-66页 |
| ·Student-centered methods | 第66-69页 |
| ·Grammar discovering | 第66-67页 |
| ·Note-taking in class | 第67页 |
| ·Student-centered exercise class | 第67-69页 |
| ·Reinforcement of grammatical knowledge through speaking, reading and writing | 第69-70页 |
| ·Attainment of grammatical competence without neglecting listening and speaking | 第70-73页 |
| 6 Conclusion | 第73-76页 |
| ·Conclusion and significance of the research | 第73-75页 |
| ·Limitations | 第75-76页 |
| Bibliography | 第76-78页 |
| Appendix: The Questionnaire | 第78-79页 |
