| Chapter One Introduction | 第1-24页 |
| ·Orientation of the Study | 第16页 |
| ·The Object of the Study | 第16-17页 |
| ·Rationale of the Study | 第17-22页 |
| ·Requirements of English Reading Teaching in Senior Middle School | 第17-18页 |
| ·Problems in the Teaching of Reading in Senior Middle School | 第18-20页 |
| ·The Situation of the Yi Students' Reading Comprehension | 第20-22页 |
| ·Objectives of the Study | 第22页 |
| ·Outline of the Thesis | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第24-31页 |
| ·Introduction | 第24页 |
| ·Defining Reading | 第24-25页 |
| ·Models of Reading: An Overview | 第25-27页 |
| ·The Bottom-up, the Top-down and the Interactive Model | 第25-26页 |
| ·Summary and Implications of the Reading Models | 第26-27页 |
| ·Overview of the Discourse Analysis Theory | 第27-28页 |
| ·Overview of Schema Theory | 第28-29页 |
| ·Summary | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第31-39页 |
| ·Introduction | 第31-32页 |
| ·Methodology | 第32-34页 |
| ·Participant Factors | 第32-33页 |
| ·Instruments | 第33-34页 |
| ·The questionnaire | 第34页 |
| ·Reading Tests | 第34页 |
| ·Procedures | 第34-36页 |
| ·Description of the Data | 第36-37页 |
| ·The Coding Framework | 第37页 |
| ·Summary | 第37-39页 |
| Chapter Four Data Analysis and Discussion | 第39-58页 |
| ·Introduction | 第39页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第39-42页 |
| ·Results of the Investigation on Reading Strategies | 第39-41页 |
| ·Results of the Pretest and Posttest | 第41-42页 |
| ·Culture, Lexical and Syntactic Patterns, and Discourse Structure | 第42-47页 |
| ·Culture and Vocabulary | 第42-44页 |
| ·Geographical environment and vocabulary | 第42页 |
| ·Historical Background and Expressions | 第42-43页 |
| ·Customs and expressions | 第43页 |
| ·Religious beliefs and expressions | 第43页 |
| ·Economy and expressions | 第43-44页 |
| ·Psychological ideas and expressions | 第44页 |
| ·Culture and Sentence Structure | 第44-45页 |
| ·Culture and Discourse Structure | 第45-47页 |
| ·The Role of Discourse Analysis Theories in Reading Comprehension | 第47-57页 |
| ·Contexts and Reading Comprehension | 第47-48页 |
| ·Cohesion and Reading Comprehension | 第48-52页 |
| ·Discourse Pattern and Reading Comprehension | 第52-57页 |
| ·Genre: narrative writing | 第53-54页 |
| ·Genre: expository writing | 第54-57页 |
| ·Summary | 第57-58页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第58-62页 |
| ·Introduction | 第58页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第58-60页 |
| ·Findings on the Yi Students | 第58页 |
| ·Findings on the Pragmatic Approach | 第58-59页 |
| ·Findings on the Teaching of Reading | 第59-60页 |
| ·Implications of the Study | 第60-61页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study and Suggestions for Further Research | 第61-62页 |
| Bibliography | 第62-64页 |
| Appendix A Questionnaire | 第64-66页 |
| Appendix B The Yi Students' Entrance Scores in 2002 | 第66-67页 |
| Appendix C Results of the Pretest and Posttest | 第67-68页 |
