| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-9页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | 第11-14页 |
| LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES | 第14-15页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第15-19页 |
| ·Background of the Study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Aims of the Research | 第16-17页 |
| ·Organization of the Study | 第17-19页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第19-37页 |
| ·Theories Concerning L2 Reading Comprehension | 第19-23页 |
| ·Interactive Theory | 第19-21页 |
| ·Schema Theory | 第21-23页 |
| ·Empirical Studies of Different Factors Affecting L2 Reading Comprehension | 第23-35页 |
| ·Previous studies on the effect of text difficulty on L2 reading comprehension | 第23-26页 |
| ·Previous studies on the effects of text type and test type on L2 reading comprehension | 第26-28页 |
| ·Previous studies on the effect of topic familiarity on L2 reading comprehension | 第28-32页 |
| ·Previous studies on the effects of text difficulty, text type and/or topic familiarity on L2 reading comprehension | 第32-35页 |
| ·Problems in the Previous Studies | 第35-37页 |
| CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY | 第37-45页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第37-38页 |
| ·Variables and Operational Definitions | 第38-41页 |
| ·Text difficulty, text type and topic familiarity as the independent variables | 第38-40页 |
| ·Text difficulty | 第38-39页 |
| ·Text type | 第39-40页 |
| ·Topic familiarity | 第40页 |
| ·L2 reading comprehension as the dependent variable | 第40-41页 |
| ·Research Design | 第41-45页 |
| ·Subjects | 第41页 |
| ·Instruments | 第41-44页 |
| ·Questionnaire of topic familiarity | 第42页 |
| ·Test of L2 reading comprehension | 第42-44页 |
| ·Data collection | 第44页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第44-45页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 第45-63页 |
| ·Results | 第45-53页 |
| ·Descriptive statistics for L2 reading comprehension | 第45-47页 |
| ·The main effects and interactions of factors on L2 reading comprehension | 第47-49页 |
| ·Interactions between two factors on L2 reading comprehension | 第49-53页 |
| ·Interactions between text difficulty and text type on L2 reading comprehension | 第49-50页 |
| ·Interactions between text difficulty and topic familiarity on L2 reading comprehension | 第50-52页 |
| ·Interactions between topic familiarity and text type on L2 reading comprehension | 第52-53页 |
| ·Discussion | 第53-63页 |
| ·The main effect of text difficulty, but no main effect of topic familiarity and text type on L2 reading comprehension | 第54-57页 |
| ·The interaction effect of text difficulty and text type on L2 reading comprehension | 第57-59页 |
| ·The interaction effect of text difficulty and topic familiarity on L2 reading comprehension | 第59-61页 |
| ·The interaction effect of text type and topic familiarity on L2 reading comprehension | 第61-63页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第63-68页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第63-64页 |
| ·Implications | 第64-66页 |
| ·Theoretical implications | 第64-65页 |
| ·Methodological implications | 第65页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications | 第65-66页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions | 第66-68页 |
| REFERENCES | 第68-73页 |
| APPENDICES | 第73-92页 |
