| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第5-7页 |
| Abstract in English | 第7-12页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第12-15页 |
| 2. Related researches on collocation | 第15-30页 |
| ·What is "collocation"? | 第15-23页 |
| ·J. R. Firth's notion | 第15-16页 |
| ·M.A.K. Halliday and R. Hason's notion | 第16-18页 |
| ·J.M.Sinclare's definition | 第18页 |
| ·Collocation in a lexical approach | 第18-20页 |
| ·M.Benson's definition and classification | 第20-23页 |
| ·Grammatical collocation | 第20-23页 |
| ·Lexical collocation | 第23页 |
| ·Classification of collocation | 第23-30页 |
| ·Lexical collocations | 第23-25页 |
| ·Open set and restricted set | 第24页 |
| ·Classification of lexical collocations | 第24-25页 |
| ·Grammatical collocations | 第25-26页 |
| ·Collocation and free combination | 第25-26页 |
| ·Classification of grammatical collocations | 第26页 |
| ·Corpora-based studies on collocation | 第26-30页 |
| ·Frequent co-occurrence | 第27-28页 |
| ·Identical combination forms | 第28-29页 |
| ·Adjacency of collocates | 第29-30页 |
| 3. Study of collocation errors in college non-English majors' writings and possible reasons for collocation errors | 第30-41页 |
| ·Study of collocation errors in non-English majors' writings | 第30-35页 |
| ·Objectives | 第30页 |
| ·Subject | 第30页 |
| ·Method | 第30-31页 |
| ·Procedure | 第31-33页 |
| ·Data collection | 第31-32页 |
| ·Data deseriPtion | 第32-33页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第33页 |
| ·Findings | 第33-35页 |
| ·Possible reasons for collocation errors | 第35-41页 |
| ·Nature of collocation | 第35-37页 |
| ·Lack of motivation | 第35-36页 |
| ·Interference of synonyms | 第36-37页 |
| ·Learner strategies | 第37-41页 |
| ·Transfer | 第37-38页 |
| ·Overgeneralization | 第38-39页 |
| ·Simplification | 第39-41页 |
| 4. Implications for English vocabulary teaching and learning | 第41-52页 |
| ·Making use of a lexical approach | 第42-46页 |
| ·The role of vocabulary in traditional Chinese approach | 第42-43页 |
| ·The role of vocabulary in a lexical approach | 第43-44页 |
| ·Suggestions for teachers and learners of English | 第44-46页 |
| ·Making use of ELT dictionaries | 第46-50页 |
| ·Lexical collocations in examples | 第46-47页 |
| ·adj. + n. (as the headword) | 第46页 |
| ·adj. (as the headword) + n | 第46-47页 |
| ·v.+ n. (as the headword) | 第47页 |
| ·adv. + adj. (as the headword) | 第47页 |
| ·Important collocations in bold type | 第47页 |
| ·Lexical collocations as entries | 第47页 |
| ·Lexical collocations in definitions | 第47-48页 |
| ·Collocations in sentence definitions | 第47-48页 |
| ·Collocations in brackets | 第48页 |
| ·Collocations in special columns | 第48-49页 |
| ·Other presentations | 第49-50页 |
| ·Making use of corpus data | 第50-52页 |
| 5. Conclusion | 第52-54页 |
| Bibliography | 第54-56页 |