| Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-14页 |
| 1.1 Research background | 第11-12页 |
| 1.1.1 The significance of vocabulary | 第11-12页 |
| 1.1.2 The current situation of vocabulary learning in senior high | 第12页 |
| 1.2 Research significance and purpose | 第12-13页 |
| 1.3 Overall structure of the thesis | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter Two Literature review | 第14-30页 |
| 2.1 Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition | 第14-21页 |
| 2.1.1 Vocabulary knowledge | 第14-16页 |
| 2.1.2 Definition of Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition | 第16页 |
| 2.1.3 Related research of Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition in reading | 第16-19页 |
| 2.1.4 Factors affecting Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition in reading | 第19-21页 |
| 2.2 Context | 第21-26页 |
| 2.2.1 Definition of context | 第21-22页 |
| 2.2.2 Classification of context | 第22-26页 |
| 2.3 Advantages of context in Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition | 第26-28页 |
| 2.3.1 Inferring word meaning from context through reading | 第26-28页 |
| 2.3.2 Acquiring word usage from context through reading | 第28页 |
| 2.4 Summary | 第28-30页 |
| Chapter Three Research methodology | 第30-41页 |
| 3.1 Research questions | 第30页 |
| 3.2 Participants | 第30-31页 |
| 3.3 Target words | 第31-32页 |
| 3.4 Reading materials | 第32-34页 |
| 3.5 Instruments | 第34-36页 |
| 3.5.1 A College Entrance Examination paper | 第34页 |
| 3.5.2 Vocabulary pretest for lexical group | 第34-35页 |
| 3.5.3 Vocabulary pretest for grammatical group | 第35页 |
| 3.5.4 Posttests | 第35-36页 |
| 3.5.5 SPSS | 第36页 |
| 3.6 Procedures | 第36-40页 |
| 3.6.1 English proficiency level test | 第37-38页 |
| 3.6.2 Pilot study | 第38页 |
| 3.6.3 Pretest | 第38-39页 |
| 3.6.4 Reading | 第39页 |
| 3.6.5 Posttests | 第39-40页 |
| 3.7 Data collection | 第40-41页 |
| Chapter Four Results and discussion | 第41-56页 |
| 4.1 Results and analysis of the pretests | 第42-43页 |
| 4.2 Results and analysis of the comparison of pretests and posttests in word meaningand word usage | 第43-45页 |
| 4.3 Effects of lexical context and grammatical context on incidental vocabularyacquisition in meaning | 第45-50页 |
| 4.3.1 Descriptive data of the pretest and posttest in word meaning | 第45-46页 |
| 4.3.2 Comparison of the effects of lexical context and grammatical context onword meaning | 第46-48页 |
| 4.3.3 discussion | 第48-50页 |
| 4.4 Effects of lexical context and grammatical context on incidental vocabularyacquisition in word usage | 第50-54页 |
| 4.4.1 Descriptive data of the pretest and posttest in word usage | 第50-51页 |
| 4.4.2 Comparison of the effect of lexical context and grammatical context on wordusage | 第51-52页 |
| 4.4.3 Discussion | 第52-54页 |
| 4.5 Summary | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第56-60页 |
| 5.1 Major findings | 第56页 |
| 5.2 Pedagogical implications | 第56-58页 |
| 5.3 Limitations and suggestions of the research | 第58-60页 |
| Bibliography | 第60-64页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ: Results for choosing target words | 第64-65页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ: Reading material for choosing target words | 第65-67页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ: A College Entrance Examination Paper | 第67-77页 |
| Appendix Ⅳ: Reading material for LG | 第77-79页 |
| Appendix Ⅴ: Reading material for GG | 第79-81页 |
| Appendix Ⅵ: Pretest for LG and GG | 第81-82页 |
| Appendix Ⅶ: Posttest for LG and GG | 第82-83页 |
| Appendix Ⅷ: Pretest and posttest scores for LG and GG | 第83-84页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第84-85页 |
| The list of the research papers published by the author | 第85-86页 |
