| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-11页 |
| Contents | 第11-14页 |
| List of Tables | 第14-16页 |
| Abbreviations | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第17-21页 |
| ·Research background | 第17-18页 |
| ·Significance of the research | 第18-19页 |
| ·Overview of the thesis | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第21-40页 |
| ·Attribution theory | 第21-31页 |
| ·Definitions of attributions and attribution theory | 第21-22页 |
| ·Heider's naive psychology | 第22-23页 |
| ·Kelley's attribution theory | 第23页 |
| ·Weiner's achievement attribution theory | 第23-25页 |
| ·Adaptive and maladaptive attributions | 第25-26页 |
| ·Previous studies of students' attributions in Second or Foreign Language Learning | 第26-28页 |
| ·Previous studies of teachers' influences on students' attributions | 第28-31页 |
| ·Teacher's expectation effect | 第31-36页 |
| ·Definitions of teachers' expectation effect | 第31-32页 |
| ·The origin of teacher's expectation effect | 第32页 |
| ·Models of teachers' expectation effect | 第32-34页 |
| ·Students' perception in teacher's expectation effect | 第34-35页 |
| ·Previous studies on teacher's expectation effect | 第35-36页 |
| ·The relationship between teachers' expectations and students' attributions | 第36页 |
| ·Variations in students' attributions and teachers' expectations by age | 第36-40页 |
| ·Age influencing students' attributions | 第37页 |
| ·Age restricting the realizations of teacher's expectation effect | 第37-40页 |
| Chapter Three Research Methodology | 第40-50页 |
| ·Research questions | 第40页 |
| ·Subjects | 第40-42页 |
| ·Instruments | 第42页 |
| ·Questionnaire | 第42-48页 |
| ·Perceived English Teachers' Expectations | 第43-45页 |
| ·Attributions for English Achievement | 第45-47页 |
| ·The distribution of the questionnaire | 第47页 |
| ·The validity of the questionnaire | 第47-48页 |
| ·Interviews | 第48页 |
| ·Data treatment | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussions | 第50-73页 |
| ·Results of research question 1 | 第50-58页 |
| ·General descriptions of perceived English teachers' expectations | 第50-52页 |
| ·Variations in perceived English teachers' expectations by grade | 第52-55页 |
| ·Variations in perceived English teachers' expectations by gender | 第55-56页 |
| ·Discussions of students' perceived English teachers' expectations | 第56-58页 |
| ·Results of research question 2 | 第58-64页 |
| ·General descriptions of students' attributions | 第58-59页 |
| ·Variations in students' attributions for English achievement by grade | 第59-62页 |
| ·Variations in students' attributions for English achievement by gender | 第62-64页 |
| ·Discussions of students' attributions for English achievement | 第64页 |
| ·Results and discussions of research question 3 | 第64-67页 |
| ·Results and discussions of research question 4 | 第67-73页 |
| ·Differences in the relationship based on gender | 第67-68页 |
| ·Discussions of differences by gender | 第68-69页 |
| ·Differences in the relationship based on grade | 第69页 |
| ·Discussions of the differences by grade | 第69-73页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第73-79页 |
| ·Main findings | 第73-74页 |
| ·Implications of the study | 第74-76页 |
| ·Limitations of present study | 第76-77页 |
| ·Suggestions for further studies | 第77-79页 |
| References | 第79-84页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第84-87页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第87-88页 |
