| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| A List of Tables | 第8-10页 |
| A List of Figures | 第10-11页 |
| A List of Charts | 第11-12页 |
| Abbreviation Used in This Thesis | 第12-13页 |
| Appendixes in This Thesis | 第13-14页 |
| Table of Contents | 第14-17页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第17-21页 |
| ·Overview | 第17-18页 |
| ·The Statement of the Problems | 第18-19页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第19页 |
| ·The Significance of the Study | 第19页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第21-38页 |
| ·Definitions, Concepts and Their Relations to Synonyms | 第21-27页 |
| ·Synonym | 第21-24页 |
| ·The Definition of Synonym | 第21-22页 |
| ·Classification of Synonyms | 第22-24页 |
| ·Source of Synonyms | 第24页 |
| ·Functions of Synonyms | 第24页 |
| ·Corpus | 第24-25页 |
| ·Concordance | 第25-26页 |
| ·KWIC | 第26页 |
| ·Node | 第26页 |
| ·Span | 第26-27页 |
| ·English Synonym Learning Method | 第27-30页 |
| ·Dictionary-based Method and Introspection-based Method | 第27-29页 |
| ·Corpus-based English Synonym Learning Method | 第29-30页 |
| ·Corpus-based English Synonym Differential Approaches | 第30-38页 |
| ·Judging the Frequencies of the Synonyms in Different Registers/Styles | 第30-32页 |
| ·Finding out the Significant Collocation Candidates of the Synonyms | 第32-34页 |
| ·Distinguishing from the Collocation Features | 第34-38页 |
| Chapter Three Research Design and Methodology | 第38-58页 |
| ·Participants | 第38-40页 |
| ·Instruments | 第40-41页 |
| ·The Experiment | 第40-41页 |
| ·The Pre-test in the Experiment | 第40页 |
| ·The Treatment of the Two Classes | 第40页 |
| ·Posttest in the Experiment | 第40-41页 |
| ·Questionnaire | 第41页 |
| ·Interview | 第41页 |
| ·Validity and Reliability | 第41-43页 |
| ·Methodology | 第43-57页 |
| ·Pilot Study | 第43-45页 |
| ·Process of the Pilot Study | 第43-44页 |
| ·Result of the Pilot Study and the Adjustments for the Main Study | 第44-45页 |
| ·The Main Study | 第45-57页 |
| ·Carrying out the Experiment | 第45-56页 |
| ·The Pre-test | 第45页 |
| ·Adjustment of the Students after the Pre-test | 第45-46页 |
| ·The Process of the Experiment | 第46-56页 |
| ·The Posttest | 第56页 |
| ·Scoring Procedure | 第56页 |
| ·Carrying out the Questionnaires and Interviews | 第56-57页 |
| ·Statistical Tools for Data Analysis | 第57-58页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第58-78页 |
| ·The Results and Analysis of the Experiment | 第58-64页 |
| ·The Results and Analysis of the Pretest | 第58-60页 |
| ·The Results and Analysis of the Posttest | 第60-64页 |
| ·The Results of the Posttest for the Two Classes | 第60-62页 |
| ·The Results and Analysis of the Posttest for Class 1 | 第60-61页 |
| ·The Results and Analysis of the Posttest for Class 2 | 第61-62页 |
| ·Significant Effect of Corpus-based Method | 第62-64页 |
| ·The Results and Analysis of the Data from the Questionnaires | 第64-73页 |
| ·Description of the Questionnaire Data | 第64-69页 |
| ·Significant Differences between the Frequencies | 第69-70页 |
| ·Relationship between Questionnaire Items | 第70-73页 |
| ·Results and Analysis of the Interview | 第73-78页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第78-83页 |
| ·Main Findings of this Study | 第78-79页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications | 第79-80页 |
| ·Limitations of this Study | 第80-81页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Research | 第81-83页 |
| Bibliography | 第83-88页 |
| Appendixes | 第88-104页 |
