| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter One: Introduction | 第10-18页 |
| 1．1 Reading Aloud | 第10-13页 |
| 1．2 Purpose of the Present Study | 第13-16页 |
| 1．3 Comparing Teachers'/ Parents' Reading Aloud with Taped Reading | 第16页 |
| 1．4 Structure of the Thesis | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Two: Literature Review | 第18-31页 |
| 2．1 Words as Meaningful Units and Sense Groups | 第18-20页 |
| 2．1．1 Content Words and Function Words | 第18-19页 |
| 2．1．2 Concepts of Sense Groups | 第19-20页 |
| 2．1．3 Division of Sense Groups | 第20页 |
| 2．2 Reading Comprehension and Linguistic Schemata | 第20-23页 |
| 2．2．1 Functions of Linguistic Schemata in Reading Comprehension | 第20-21页 |
| 2．2．2 Sense Group Reading and Linguistic Schemata | 第21-23页 |
| 2．3 Reading Comprehension and Reading Automaticity | 第23-25页 |
| 2．3．1 Controlled and Automatic Processing | 第23-24页 |
| 2．3．2 Reading Automaticity | 第24-25页 |
| 2．3．3 Sense Group Reading and Reading Automaticity | 第25页 |
| 2．4 Reading Comprehension and Memory | 第25-29页 |
| 2．4．1 Propositional Theory | 第25-27页 |
| 2．4．1．1 Establishment of Propositions | 第26-27页 |
| 2．4．1．2 Sense Group Reading and Propositions | 第27页 |
| 2．4．2 Working Memory | 第27-29页 |
| 2．4．2．1 Functions of Working Memory | 第27页 |
| 2．4．2．2 Propositions in Working Memory | 第27-28页 |
| 2．4．2．3 Sense Group Reading and Working Memory | 第28-29页 |
| 2．5 Comment on the Related Concepts and Theories | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter Three: the Experiment | 第31-44页 |
| 3．1 General Introductions | 第31-34页 |
| 3．1．1 Research Questions | 第31-32页 |
| 3．1．2 Subjects | 第32-33页 |
| 3．1．3 Materials | 第33-34页 |
| 3．2 Pre-experimental Phase | 第34-37页 |
| 3．2．1 Calculation of Subjects' Reading Speed | 第34页 |
| 3．2．2 Evaluation of Teacher's Model Function | 第34-35页 |
| 3．2．3 Checking of Subjects' Chunking | 第35页 |
| 3．2．4 Criteria of Sense Group Chunking | 第35-37页 |
| 3．3 Experimental Phase | 第37-38页 |
| 3．3．1 Training in the Experimental Group | 第37-38页 |
| 3．3．2 Training in the Control Group | 第38页 |
| 3．4 Post-experimental Phase | 第38-43页 |
| 3．4．1 Test One: the Subjects' Sense Group Chunking Ability | 第38-40页 |
| 3．4．2 Test Two: the Subjects Predictive Ability | 第40-41页 |
| 3．4．3 Test Three: the Subjects' Attention Allocation | 第41-42页 |
| 3．4．4 Test Four: the Subjects' Preposition Extracting Ability | 第42-43页 |
| 3．5 Method of Data Analysis | 第43-44页 |
| Chapter Four: Results and Discussion | 第44-60页 |
| 4．1 Quantitative Analysis | 第44-54页 |
| 4．1．1 Comparison of Sense Group Chunking of Both Groups | 第44-49页 |
| 4．1．2 Comparison of Predictive Ability of Both Groups | 第49-50页 |
| 4．1．3 Comparison of Syntactic Decoding of Both Groups | 第50-52页 |
| 4．1．4 Comparison of Proposition Extraction of Both Groups | 第52页 |
| 4．1．5 Summary of the Quantitative Analysis | 第52-54页 |
| 4．2 Qualitative Analysis | 第54-60页 |
| 4．2．1 Case Study of Sense Group Chunking | 第54-55页 |
| 4．2．2 Case Study of Blank Filling | 第55-56页 |
| 4．2．3 Case Study of Letter Crossing-out | 第56-57页 |
| 4．2．4 Case Study of Proposition Extraction | 第57-59页 |
| 4．2．5 Summary of the Qualitative Analysis | 第59-60页 |
| Chapter Five: Conclusion | 第60-64页 |
| 5．1 Major Findings of the Study | 第60-61页 |
| 5．2 Pedagogical Implications of the Study | 第61-62页 |
| 5．3 Limitations of the Study | 第62页 |
| 5．4 Suggestions for Further Study | 第62-64页 |
| References | 第64-67页 |
| Appendices | 第67-83页 |
