| Declaration | 第1-4页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Contents | 第7-11页 |
| Abbreviations | 第11-12页 |
| List of Tables | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-21页 |
| ·The rationale of the study | 第13-18页 |
| ·The significant role of idioms and their use in languages | 第13-15页 |
| ·The studies on idioms | 第15-16页 |
| ·The important role of idioms in learner's dictionaries | 第16-17页 |
| ·The deficiencies in the treatment of idiom information in current ECLDs | 第17-18页 |
| ·The object of the thesis | 第18页 |
| ·Research issues | 第18页 |
| ·Possible difficulties | 第18页 |
| ·Innovations | 第18-19页 |
| ·Methodology | 第19页 |
| ·The structure of the thesis | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Two Relevant Studies | 第21-27页 |
| ·Previous studies on the definition of idioms | 第21-24页 |
| ·Different definitions of idioms given by scholars | 第21-23页 |
| ·Definitions of idioms in dictionaries | 第23-24页 |
| ·Features of idioms | 第24页 |
| ·Scope of idioms | 第24-25页 |
| ·Summary | 第25-27页 |
| Chapter Three Comparison between the Five Types of Idiom Information in the Big5 and Two China-made ECLDs | 第27-37页 |
| ·Introduction | 第27-28页 |
| ·A brief introduction of the Big5 and two China-made ECLDs | 第28-29页 |
| ·The comparison between the five types of idiom information in the seven ECLDs | 第29-34页 |
| ·A brief introduction about the general information of idioms in the seven ECLDs | 第29-31页 |
| ·The comparison between the five types of information of 17 idioms in the seven ECLDs | 第31-34页 |
| ·The deficiencies in the treatment of the five types of idiom information in current ECLDs | 第34-35页 |
| ·Summary | 第35-37页 |
| Chapter Four The Needs of the Intermediate-advanced English Learners in China Concerning the Five Types of Idiom Information | 第37-52页 |
| ·The theory of User Perspective | 第37-38页 |
| ·Research subjects | 第38-39页 |
| ·Research aims | 第39-40页 |
| ·Analysis of the results of the questionnaire and the test paper | 第40-50页 |
| ·Results of the questionnaire | 第40-42页 |
| ·Analysis of the questionnaire | 第42-43页 |
| ·Results of the test paper | 第43-49页 |
| ·Analysis of the test paper | 第49-50页 |
| ·Summary of the investigation | 第50-52页 |
| Chapter Five The Five Types of Idiom Information and the Suggestions on the Ways to Represent Them in ECLDs | 第52-78页 |
| ·Introduction | 第52-53页 |
| ·The five types of idiom information and the suggestions on the ways to represent them in ECLDs | 第53-76页 |
| ·Phonological information of idioms | 第53-55页 |
| ·The important of phonological information of idioms | 第53-54页 |
| ·Proposed presentation of phonological information of idioms | 第54-55页 |
| ·Syntactic function of idioms | 第55-57页 |
| ·The importance of the information of syntactic function of idioms | 第55-56页 |
| ·Proposed presentation of syntactic function of idioms | 第56-57页 |
| ·Collocation information of idioms | 第57-64页 |
| ·The importance of collocation information | 第58页 |
| ·Collocation information of idioms and the defects of its treatment in current ECLDs | 第58-60页 |
| ·The ways to present collocation information | 第60-63页 |
| ·Proposed presentation of collocation information of idioms | 第63-64页 |
| ·Other grammatical information of idioms | 第64-70页 |
| ·The importance of grammar | 第64页 |
| ·The contents of grammar in dictionaries | 第64-65页 |
| ·Other grammatical information of idioms | 第65-70页 |
| ·Pragmatic information of idioms | 第70-76页 |
| ·The importance of pragmatic information | 第70-71页 |
| ·Pragmatic information of idioms in current ECLDs and their deficiencies | 第71-72页 |
| ·Proposed presentation of pragrnatic information of idioms | 第72-76页 |
| ·Proposed samples of three idiom entries in ECLDs based on what is stated above | 第76-78页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第78-81页 |
| ·A survey of the present study | 第78-79页 |
| ·Some research values of the present study | 第79-80页 |
| ·Limitations of present study | 第80页 |
| ·Suggestions for further study | 第80-81页 |
| Dictionaries Cited | 第81-82页 |
| Bibliography | 第82-85页 |
| Appendixes | 第85-97页 |
| Appendix One: Tables of the seventeen idioms chosen in Chapter Three | 第85-93页 |
| Appendix Two: Questionnaire | 第93-95页 |
| Appendix Three: Test paper | 第95-97页 |
| Appendix Four: Suggested answers to the test paper | 第97页 |
