| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-8页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第8页 |
| List of Figures | 第8-9页 |
| List of Tables | 第9-13页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第13-16页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第13-14页 |
| ·Significance for the Present Research | 第14-15页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第15-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第16-27页 |
| ·Definitions of Key Terms | 第16-17页 |
| ·Defining Sentence and Syntax | 第16-17页 |
| ·Explanation on Syntactic Features | 第17页 |
| ·The Using Features of the Subordinate Clause in Students’EFL Writings | 第17-19页 |
| ·Syntactic Development and Students’Writing Quality | 第19-21页 |
| ·The Universal Hierarchies | 第21-23页 |
| ·Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy (NPAH) | 第21-22页 |
| ·Perceptual Difficulty Hypothesis (PDH) | 第22-23页 |
| ·Differences and Similarities on Syntax between Chinese and English | 第23-26页 |
| ·Synthetic vs. Analytic | 第23-24页 |
| ·Compact vs. Diffusive | 第24-25页 |
| ·Stative vs. Dynamic | 第25-26页 |
| ·Summary | 第26-27页 |
| Chapter 3 Research Methodology | 第27-35页 |
| ·Instrument | 第27-28页 |
| ·Participants | 第28页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第28-29页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第29-34页 |
| ·Defining the Subordinate Clause | 第29-31页 |
| ·Defining the Nominal Clause | 第29-30页 |
| ·Defining the Relative Clause | 第30页 |
| ·Defining the Adverbial Clause | 第30-31页 |
| ·Sentence Selecting Standards | 第31-33页 |
| ·Marking the Compositions | 第33页 |
| ·Method of Statistical Analysis | 第33-34页 |
| ·Summary | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter 4 Results and Discussion | 第35-73页 |
| ·The General Using Features of the Subordinate Clause in Senior High School Students’ Compositions | 第35-53页 |
| ·Using Tendency in Grade One students’Compositions | 第35-39页 |
| ·Tendency of the Nominal Clause | 第36-37页 |
| ·Tendency of the Relative Clause | 第37-38页 |
| ·Tendency of the Adverbial Clause | 第38-39页 |
| ·Summary | 第39页 |
| ·Using Tendency in Grade Two Students’Compositions | 第39-43页 |
| ·Tendency of the Nominal Clause | 第40页 |
| ·Tendency of the Relative Clause | 第40-41页 |
| ·Tendency of the Adverbial Clause | 第41-42页 |
| ·Summary | 第42-43页 |
| ·Using Tendency in Grade Three Students’Compositions | 第43-46页 |
| ·Tendency of the Nominal Clause | 第43-44页 |
| ·Tendency of the Relative Clause | 第44-45页 |
| ·Tendency of the Adverbial Clause | 第45-46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46页 |
| ·Macroscopic Comparisons among Grade One, Two, Three’s Compositions | 第46-53页 |
| ·Grade Tendency in Use of the Subordinate Clause | 第46-48页 |
| ·Ratios of the Subordinate Clause per Complex Sentence | 第48-50页 |
| ·Grade Tendency in Use of the Nominal Clause | 第50-51页 |
| ·Grade Tendency in Use of the Relative Clause | 第51-52页 |
| ·Grade Tendency in Use of the Adverbial Clause | 第52页 |
| ·Summary | 第52-53页 |
| ·The Distinct Using Features of the Subordinate Clause by Students from Different Grades | 第53-70页 |
| ·The Nominal Clause | 第53-59页 |
| ·The Nominal Clause Functioning as Subject (S) | 第54-55页 |
| ·The Nominal Clause Functioning as Object (O) | 第55-57页 |
| ·The Nominal Clause Functioning as Subject Complement (SC) | 第57页 |
| ·The Nominal Clause Functioning as Preposition Complement (PC) | 第57-58页 |
| ·The Nominal Clause Functioning as Apposition (A) | 第58-59页 |
| ·Summary | 第59页 |
| ·The Relative Clause | 第59-64页 |
| ·The Effectiveness of the Universal Hierarchy | 第60-61页 |
| ·The Relative Pronoun Functioning as SU | 第61-62页 |
| ·The Relative Pronoun Functioning as DO | 第62-63页 |
| ·The Relative Pronoun Functioning as OPREP | 第63页 |
| ·The Relative Pronoun Functioning as IO, GEN, OCOMP | 第63页 |
| ·Summary | 第63-64页 |
| ·The Adverbial Clause | 第64-70页 |
| ·The Adverbial Clause Meaning as TIME | 第64-65页 |
| ·The Adverbial Clause Meaning as MANNER | 第65-66页 |
| ·The Adverbial Clause Meaning as CAUSE | 第66-67页 |
| ·The Adverbial Clause Meaning as RESULT | 第67页 |
| ·The Adverbial Clause Meaning as PURPOSE | 第67-68页 |
| ·The Adverbial Clause Meaning as CONDITION | 第68-69页 |
| ·The Adverbial Clause Meaning as CONCESSION | 第69页 |
| ·Summary | 第69-70页 |
| ·Relationships between the Use of the Subordinate Clause and EFL Writing Quality | 第70-73页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第73-79页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第73-74页 |
| ·Implications of the Findings | 第74-77页 |
| ·Theoretical Implications | 第75-76页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications | 第76-77页 |
| ·Limitations and Recommendations for Future Research | 第77-79页 |
| References | 第79-84页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ Correlation in Micro-aspect between the Use of the Subordinate Clause and EFL Writing Quality | 第84-88页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ Composition Topic | 第88-89页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ Marking Scale | 第89-90页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第90-91页 |
