| 1 Introduction | 第1-14页 |
| ·Background | 第10-11页 |
| ·The research question | 第11页 |
| ·Significance of word attack strategies | 第11-14页 |
| 2 The hindrances in vocabulary instruction and learning in senior middle schools | 第14-26页 |
| ·Chronicles of the teaching of lexicon | 第14-19页 |
| ·Pre-period of the limitation on lexicon(before the 1930s) | 第15页 |
| ·The vocabulary control period ( 1930s—1960s ) | 第15-16页 |
| ·The rising period | 第16-17页 |
| ·The development period ( 1980s up to now ) | 第17-19页 |
| ·Vocabulary learning in senior middle schools | 第19-23页 |
| ·Statistics of the attitude to vocabulary learning | 第21-22页 |
| ·The hindrances in vocabulary learning | 第22-23页 |
| ·Vocabulary instruction in senior middle schools | 第23-24页 |
| ·Interviews on vocabulary instruction | 第23页 |
| ·Complaints from teachers | 第23-24页 |
| ·Misunderstandings on vocabulary instruction | 第24-26页 |
| 3 Reviews of related literature4 | 第26-34页 |
| ·Cognitive strategies | 第26-29页 |
| ·What is cognitivism | 第26-27页 |
| ·The basics of cognitivism | 第27页 |
| ·Key concepts of cognitive theory | 第27-29页 |
| ·Strength and weakness of cognitivism | 第29页 |
| ·Research achievements at home and abroad | 第29-32页 |
| ·Common strategies on vocabulary instruction | 第29-31页 |
| ·Suggested methods | 第31-32页 |
| ·The effectiveness and necessity of cognitive strategies on vocabulary instruction | 第32-34页 |
| 4 Applications and suggestions for word attack strategies | 第34-64页 |
| ·Vocabulary instruction | 第35-43页 |
| ·Nature and features of vocabulary | 第35-37页 |
| ·Structural clues | 第37-38页 |
| ·Morphological information | 第38-40页 |
| ·Inferences from the context | 第40-42页 |
| ·Word associations | 第42-43页 |
| ·Instructional techniques of word attack strategies | 第43-55页 |
| ·Measures for guessing the unknown words | 第44-45页 |
| ·Techniques for word attack strategies | 第45-46页 |
| ·Clues for guessing | 第46-55页 |
| ·Using dictionaries for the exact meanings of unknown words | 第55-59页 |
| ·An Experiment of word learning strategies | 第59-64页 |
| ·Procedures | 第59-61页 |
| ·Research design | 第59-60页 |
| ·Material preparation | 第60页 |
| ·Treatment | 第60页 |
| ·Testing | 第60-61页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第61页 |
| ·Questionnaire | 第61-62页 |
| ·Results and discussion | 第62-63页 |
| ·Suggestions | 第63-64页 |
| 5 Conclusion | 第64-66页 |
| ·Implications of vocabulary learning | 第64-65页 |
| ·limitations of the research | 第65页 |
| ·Future research possibility | 第65-66页 |
| References | 第66-70页 |
| Appendix I | 第70-77页 |
| Appendix II | 第77-80页 |
