| Acknowledgements | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-12页 |
| Contents | 第12-16页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第16-24页 |
| ·Introduction | 第16页 |
| ·Why do we study communicative strategic competence? | 第16-21页 |
| ·Interlanguage Communication and The use of Communicative strategy | 第16-18页 |
| ·Strategic competence and communicative competence | 第18-20页 |
| ·The importance of studying communicative Strategic competence | 第20-21页 |
| ·Significance of the study of communicative strategic competence of Chinese EFL learners | 第21-22页 |
| ·Research design | 第22-23页 |
| ·summary | 第23-24页 |
| Chapter Two Review of CSs Study | 第24-41页 |
| ·Introduction | 第24-25页 |
| ·Historical outline of CSs research | 第25-26页 |
| ·Approaches to CSs Study | 第26-27页 |
| ·Different conceptualizations of CSs | 第27-31页 |
| ·The traditional view | 第27-28页 |
| ·Tarone's interactional perspective | 第28页 |
| ·Dornyei's extended view | 第28-29页 |
| ·Dornyei and Scott's extended view | 第29页 |
| ·Canale's extended view | 第29-30页 |
| ·A Psychological approaches to conceptualizing CSs | 第30-31页 |
| ·A brief summary of conceptualizations of CSs | 第31页 |
| ·Taxonomies of CSs | 第31-36页 |
| ·Traditional taxonomies | 第32页 |
| ·The Nijmegen Group's taxonomy | 第32-33页 |
| ·Dornyei's extended taxonomy | 第33-36页 |
| ·Factors affecting the use of CSs | 第36-39页 |
| ·Summary | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter Three Investigation of the use of CSs by Chinese EFL Learner | 第41-60页 |
| ·Introduction | 第41页 |
| ·Purpose of the investigation | 第41页 |
| ·Research questions | 第41页 |
| ·Subjects | 第41-42页 |
| ·Methods | 第42-43页 |
| ·Task | 第43-44页 |
| ·Procedures | 第44-45页 |
| ·The results | 第45-52页 |
| ·Identification | 第45-46页 |
| ·Taxonomy | 第46-52页 |
| ·The Analysis of the results and discussion | 第52-57页 |
| ·The relationship between the number of CSs and language proficiency | 第52-53页 |
| ·Language proficiency and the selection of types of CSs | 第53-57页 |
| ·Summary | 第57-60页 |
| Chapter Four Implications and Applications | 第60-80页 |
| ·Introduction | 第60-61页 |
| ·Syllabus design | 第61-62页 |
| ·Foreign language testing | 第62-64页 |
| ·Teaching methodology | 第64-78页 |
| ·The controversial of CSs training | 第65-67页 |
| ·Possible ways to develop learners'strategic competence by strategy training in classroom settings | 第67-78页 |
| ·Raising learners'awareness about the nature and communicative potential of CSs by strategy training | 第68页 |
| ·Providing L2 models of the use of certain CSs | 第68-72页 |
| ·Encouraging students to be willing to take risks and use CSs | 第72-73页 |
| ·Teaching CSs directly | 第73-74页 |
| ·Providing opportunities for practice in strategy use | 第74-76页 |
| ·Some activities to develop learners'strategic competence | 第76-78页 |
| ·Summary | 第78-80页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第80-83页 |
| ·Summary of the thesis | 第80页 |
| ·Suggestions | 第80-83页 |
| Bibliography | 第83-87页 |