| Declaration | 第3-4页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第4页 |
| Acknowledge | 第6-11页 |
| List of Figures | 第11页 |
| List of Tables | 第11-12页 |
| List of Appendices | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第13-21页 |
| 1．1 Research orientation | 第13-14页 |
| 1．2 Rationale | 第14-17页 |
| 1．3 Key research questions | 第17-19页 |
| 1．4 Content of remaining chapters | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter 2 Review of the Related Literature | 第21-66页 |
| 2．1 Overview | 第21页 |
| 2．2 Studies on word knowledge types | 第21-28页 |
| 2．2．1 Research into word knowledge type by Richards （1976） | 第22-24页 |
| 2．2．2 A revised framework of word knowledge by Nation （1990） | 第24-26页 |
| 2．2．3 Advocates of 'Framework' position and related studies | 第26-28页 |
| 2．3 Studies on ”receptive” vs． ”productive” word knowledge | 第28-33页 |
| 2．3．1 Early discussions o receptive vs． productive distinction | 第29-31页 |
| 2．3．2 Current discussions on receptive and productive vocabulary | 第31-33页 |
| 2．4 Studies on word knowledge measurement | 第33-46页 |
| 2．4．1 Early conceptions about vocabulary measurement and its test development | 第33-35页 |
| 2．4．2 Further development of vocabulary knowledge measurement | 第35-37页 |
| 2．4．3 A large-scale quantitative test on L2 English vocabulary in the 1980s | 第37-38页 |
| 2．4．4 Test instruments developed on the basis of ”continuum” | 第38-40页 |
| 2．4．5 A recent challenge to the quantitative vocabulary measurement | 第40-43页 |
| 2．4．6 A fresh approach to vocabulary measurement in a word knowledge framework | 第43-46页 |
| 2．5 Studies on L2 vocabulary development | 第46-60页 |
| 2．5．1 A macro theory of vocabulary development and acquisition | 第47-49页 |
| 2．5．2 Micro theories of L2 vocabulary acquisition | 第49-56页 |
| 2．5．2．1 Henriksen's three-dimension approach | 第49-51页 |
| 2．5．2．2 Development of vocabulary as revealed from the knowledge state: a multi-state model proposed by Meara | 第51-54页 |
| 2．5．2．3 Development of vocabulary as revealed from the mental representation proposed by Jiang | 第54-56页 |
| 2．5．3 Empirical studies on L2 vocabulary development | 第56-60页 |
| 2．5．3．1 Schmitt & Meara's （1997） empirical study of word association and verbal suffixes | 第56-58页 |
| 2．5．3．2 Schmitt's （1998） empirical study of spelling, associations, word class and meaning | 第58-59页 |
| 2．5．3．3 Empirical studies on development of L2 word knowledge types in China | 第59-60页 |
| 2．6 Summary and conclusions | 第60-66页 |
| 2．6．1 Summary of the current research | 第60-62页 |
| 2．6．2 Strengths of the current research | 第62-64页 |
| 2．6．3 Weaknesses of the current research | 第64-66页 |
| Chapter 3 A Tentative Conceptual Framework of L2 Word Knowledge Development | 第66-76页 |
| 3．1 Prior considerations | 第66-67页 |
| 3．2 L2 word knowledge development in the classroom setting: a conceptual framework | 第67-70页 |
| 3．3 Variables for investigation and their operational definitions | 第70-74页 |
| 3．4 Specific research questions | 第74-76页 |
| Chapter 4 Research Design, Instrumentation, Data Collection and Data Analysis | 第76-95页 |
| 4．1 Research design | 第76-80页 |
| 4．1．1 Nature of the design | 第76-77页 |
| 4．1．2 Research approach | 第77页 |
| 4．1．3 Participants | 第77-80页 |
| 4．2 Instrumentation | 第80-85页 |
| 4．2．1 Prompt words | 第80-81页 |
| 4．2．2 Test of familiarity to prompt words: a pilot study | 第81-82页 |
| 4．2．3 Productive word knowledge test and receptive word knowledge test | 第82-85页 |
| 4．3 Data collection | 第85-86页 |
| 4．4 Data preparation and analysis | 第86-95页 |
| 4．4．1 Setting up norms | 第87-90页 |
| 4．4．2 Scoring scheme | 第90-92页 |
| 4．4．3 Statistical techniques for quantitative analysis | 第92-93页 |
| 4．4．4 Qualitative analysis of word meanings | 第93-95页 |
| Chapter 5 Results for L2 Word Knowledge Acquisition in the Classroom Setting | 第95-118页 |
| 5．1 Quantitative results | 第95-113页 |
| 5．1．1 Acquisition of word knowledge within groups of same proficiency level | 第96-102页 |
| 5．1．2 Acquisition of word knowledge between groups of different proficiency levels | 第102-111页 |
| 5．1．3 Development of receptive knowledge into productive knowledge | 第111-113页 |
| 5．2 Qualitative results | 第113-118页 |
| Chapter 6 Discussions, Conclusions and Recommendations for Further Research | 第118-150页 |
| 6．1 Major findings | 第118-121页 |
| 6．2 Acquisition of four types of word knowledge | 第121-125页 |
| 6．3 Distinction between receptive and productive knowledge revisited | 第125-129页 |
| 6．4 Similarities and differences in the acquisition of word knowledge types by L2 learners and the native speakers | 第129-133页 |
| 6．5 Development of knowledge about individual words in the classroom setting | 第133-136页 |
| 6．6 Theorizing acquisition of individual L2 words in the classroom setting | 第136-144页 |
| 6．7 Conclusions | 第144-147页 |
| 6．7．1 The route of development followed by L2 learners of English in the acquisition of word knowledge | 第144-145页 |
| 6．7．2 The developmental order with respect to receptive and productive word knowledge | 第145-146页 |
| 6．7．3 Effects of the interaction of learner-internal and learner-external factors on the acquisition of word knowledge in the classroom setting | 第146-147页 |
| 6．8 Recommendations for further research | 第147-150页 |
| References | 第150-158页 |
| Appendices | 第158-219页 |
