| ABSTRACT | 第1-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第8-9页 |
| LIST OF TABLES | 第9-10页 |
| ABBREVIATIONS | 第10-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-17页 |
| ·Motivations of the Present Study | 第13-15页 |
| ·A General Description of the Present Study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第16-17页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第17-33页 |
| ·Language Development in Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency | 第17-21页 |
| ·Definition of Complexity | 第18-19页 |
| ·Definition of Fluency | 第19-20页 |
| ·Definition of Accuracy | 第20-21页 |
| ·Cognitive Accounts of Language Development | 第21-24页 |
| ·Interlanguage | 第21-22页 |
| ·Underlying Process of Language Development | 第22-24页 |
| ·Measurement of Complexity, Fluency and Accuracy | 第24-27页 |
| ·Complexity Measurement | 第24-25页 |
| ·Fluency Measurement | 第25页 |
| ·Accuracy Measurement | 第25-27页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Language Development in Writing | 第27-33页 |
| ·Cross-sectional Studies | 第28-29页 |
| ·Longitudinal Studies | 第29-31页 |
| ·Synthesis Studies | 第31-32页 |
| ·Other Related Issues | 第32-33页 |
| CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY | 第33-40页 |
| ·Subjects | 第33页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第33-34页 |
| ·Instruments | 第34-37页 |
| ·Syntactic Complexity Measures | 第34-36页 |
| ·Syntactic Fluency Measures | 第36-37页 |
| ·Syntactic Accuracy Measures | 第37页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第37-40页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR RESULTS OF DATA ANALYSIS | 第40-58页 |
| ·The Developmental Trend in Complexity, Fluency and Accuracy | 第40-55页 |
| ·Results of Syntactic Complexity Measures | 第40-46页 |
| ·Results of Syntactic Sophistication Measures | 第40-44页 |
| ·Results of Syntactic Variation Measures | 第44-46页 |
| ·Results of Syntactic Fluency Measures | 第46-50页 |
| ·Results of Syntactic Accuracy Measures | 第50-55页 |
| ·The Relationship of Development in Syntactic Complexity, Fluency and Accuracy. | 第55-58页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE DISCUSSION | 第58-68页 |
| ·The Developmental Trend of Syntactic Complexity | 第58-59页 |
| ·The Developmental Trend of Syntactic Fluency | 第59-61页 |
| ·The Developmental Trend of Syntactic Accuracy | 第61-62页 |
| ·Comparison with the Results of Previous Studies | 第62-64页 |
| ·The Relationship between Complexity, Fluency and Accuracy | 第64-68页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION | 第68-75页 |
| ·Major Findings: | 第68-69页 |
| ·Implications | 第69-73页 |
| ·Theoretical Implications | 第69-71页 |
| ·Practical Implications | 第71-73页 |
| ·Limitations and Recommendations for Future Research | 第73-75页 |
| REFERENCES | 第75-81页 |
| APPENDICES | 第81-85页 |
| Rubrics for T-units, Clauses, Independent and Dependent Clauses, Word Counts,and Sentences | 第81-85页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间主要科研成果目录 | 第85页 |
