| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-9页 |
| Table of Contents | 第9-11页 |
| List of Tables and Figures | 第11-12页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-15页 |
| ·Overview | 第13页 |
| ·Need for the study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第14页 |
| ·Outline of the thesis | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第15-28页 |
| ·Clarification of key concepts | 第15-18页 |
| ·Definition of narrative | 第15-17页 |
| ·Definition of narrative structure | 第17-18页 |
| ·Theoretical basis:schemata theory | 第18-19页 |
| ·Definition of schemata | 第18-19页 |
| ·Classification of schemata | 第19页 |
| ·Some related empirical narrative studies | 第19-27页 |
| ·Story grammar:A psycholinguistic approach | 第20-23页 |
| ·Labov's narrative model:A sociolinguistic approach | 第23-25页 |
| ·Studies on learners' narrative:A pedagogical perspective | 第25-27页 |
| ·Summary | 第27-28页 |
| Chapter Three Research Design | 第28-39页 |
| ·Research questions | 第28-29页 |
| ·Research material | 第29-30页 |
| ·Data preparation | 第30页 |
| ·The sampled cases of EM2 students | 第30页 |
| ·The sampled cases of EM3 students | 第30页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第30-35页 |
| ·Coding T-units | 第31-33页 |
| ·Reducing data to identinable componeilts | 第33页 |
| ·Identifying the core narrative structure | 第33-35页 |
| ·Categorizing learners' oral narrative components | 第35页 |
| ·Descirbing the Developmental Changes in Learners' Oral Narratives | 第35页 |
| ·Narrative components identified in oral narratives | 第35-38页 |
| ·Summary | 第38-39页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第39-63页 |
| ·The macro discourse structures extracted from learerns' oral narratives | 第39-44页 |
| ·The macro discourse structures extracted from EM2's oral narratives | 第39-41页 |
| ·The macro discourse structures extracted from EM3's oral narratives | 第41-44页 |
| ·The micro discourse structutures extracted from learners' oral narratives | 第44-56页 |
| ·The micro discourse structures extracted from EM2's oral narratives | 第44-50页 |
| ·The micro discourse structures extracted from EM3's oral narratives | 第50-56页 |
| ·The developmental pattern of narrative structures across different learning stages | 第56-63页 |
| ·Cross-learning stage comparison of the macro discourse structures | 第56-57页 |
| ·Cross-learning stage comparison of the micro discourse structures | 第57-62页 |
| ·Summary | 第62-63页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第63-67页 |
| ·M ajor findings | 第63-64页 |
| ·Theoretical and pedagogical implications | 第64-65页 |
| ·Limitations of the study | 第65-66页 |
| ·Suggestions recommended for future study | 第66-67页 |
| References | 第67-71页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ Transcripts of Sampled Cases of EM2 Students | 第71-84页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ Transcripts of Sampled Cases of EM3 Students | 第84-106页 |
