| 中文摘要 | 第4-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| 1. Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| 1.1 Problems in college English reading teaching | 第10-13页 |
| 1.2 Objective of the study | 第13页 |
| 1.3 Organization of the thesis | 第13-15页 |
| 2. Literature Review | 第15-20页 |
| 2.1 Bottom-up model of reading | 第15-16页 |
| 2.2 Top-down Model of Reading | 第16-17页 |
| 2.3 Interactive Model of Reading | 第17-18页 |
| 2.4 Limitations of the above mentioned teaching methods | 第18-20页 |
| 3. Relevance Theory and Its Enlightment to Reading Comprehension | 第20-31页 |
| 3.1 Basic issues of relevance theory | 第20-29页 |
| 3.1.1 Communication as an Ostensive-Inferential Process | 第20-22页 |
| 3.1.2 Cognitive Principle of Relevance | 第22-23页 |
| 3.1.3 Context, Contextual effect, and Relevance | 第23-25页 |
| 3.1.4 The communicative principle of relevance | 第25-29页 |
| 3.2 Possible enlightment of relevance theory to reading comprehension | 第29-31页 |
| 3.2.1 Encode and decode | 第29页 |
| 3.2.2 Ostensive inferential purpose | 第29页 |
| 3.2.3 Contextual effect | 第29-30页 |
| 3.2.4 Cognitive environment | 第30-31页 |
| 4. Reading Teaching Based on relevance theory | 第31-39页 |
| 4.1 The main requirement of the college English reading teaching | 第31页 |
| 4.2 The application of the relevance theory to college English reading teaching | 第31-39页 |
| 4.2.1 Inferring the utterance meaning | 第32-33页 |
| 4.2.2 Inferring the author's viewpoints or attitudes | 第33-36页 |
| 4.2.3 Inferring the meaning of new words through context | 第36-37页 |
| 4.2.4. Inferring the hidden information from the context | 第37-39页 |
| 5. Research and Findings | 第39-44页 |
| 5.1 The research | 第39-42页 |
| 5.1.1 Objectives and subjects | 第39页 |
| 5.1.2 Method and procedures | 第39-41页 |
| 5.1.3 Pretest and Posttest Results | 第41-42页 |
| 5.2 Findings | 第42-44页 |
| 6. Conclusion | 第44-45页 |
| Bibliography | 第45-47页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第47页 |
