| 独创性声明 | 第1-6页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第6-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| List of Figures and Tables | 第10-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·Background | 第11-12页 |
| ·Origin of the study | 第12-13页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Research methods and framework of the paper | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第15-24页 |
| ·Principled-based approaches to sentence processing | 第15-16页 |
| ·Referential approaches to sentence processing | 第16页 |
| ·Constraint-based approaches to sentence processing | 第16-20页 |
| ·First language sentence processing researches within the Competition Model | 第17-18页 |
| ·Second language sentence processing researches within the Competition Model | 第18-20页 |
| ·Researches on processing of relative clauses | 第20-24页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第24-34页 |
| ·Mechanisms of the Competition Model | 第24-25页 |
| ·Cue strength | 第25-26页 |
| ·Cue cost | 第26页 |
| ·English sentence comprehension process within the Competition Model | 第26-28页 |
| ·Structures of English relative clauses | 第28-30页 |
| ·Comparison between cues in English and Chinese | 第30-32页 |
| ·The Competition Model and language transfer | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter Four Experiments | 第34-44页 |
| ·Experiment One | 第34-37页 |
| ·Participants | 第34页 |
| ·Materials | 第34-35页 |
| ·Procedure | 第35页 |
| ·Data collection | 第35页 |
| ·Results | 第35-37页 |
| ·Experiment Two | 第37-40页 |
| ·Participants | 第37页 |
| ·Materials | 第37-38页 |
| ·Procedure | 第38页 |
| ·Data collection | 第38页 |
| ·Results | 第38-40页 |
| ·Experiment Three | 第40-44页 |
| ·Participants | 第40页 |
| ·Materials | 第40页 |
| ·Procedure | 第40-41页 |
| ·Data collection | 第41页 |
| ·Results | 第41-44页 |
| Chapter Five General Discussion | 第44-50页 |
| ·Factors that influence comprehending of relative clauses | 第44-46页 |
| ·Cues relied on by Chinese senior school students in comprehending English relative clauses | 第46-47页 |
| ·Roles of relative pronoun "who /which" and relativizer "that" in object relative clauses | 第47页 |
| ·Tendency of mistake-making in different cues | 第47-48页 |
| ·Questions with subjects in learning English | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter Six Implication on English Teaching | 第50-57页 |
| ·Why raise students' grammar consciousness? | 第50-51页 |
| ·What is grammar consciousness-raising? | 第51页 |
| ·What can grammatical consciousness-raising do? | 第51-52页 |
| ·How should consciousness-raising activities be organized? | 第52-57页 |
| ·Adopt task-based teaching model to arrange teaching activities | 第52-55页 |
| ·Change vocabulary-teaching approach to improve students' grammar consciousness | 第55-57页 |
| Chapter Seven Conclusion | 第57-59页 |
| REFERENCES | 第59-65页 |
| APPENDIX A | 第65-72页 |
| APPENDIX B | 第72页 |
