| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| English Abstract | 第4-7页 |
| Chinese Abstract | 第7-10页 |
| A List of Figures and Tables | 第10-11页 |
| Abbreviations Used in This Thesis | 第11-12页 |
| A Table of Contents | 第12-17页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第17-23页 |
| ·Research Background | 第17-18页 |
| ·Purpose of the Study | 第18-19页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第19-20页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第20页 |
| ·Definitions of the Key Terms | 第20-21页 |
| ·The Overall Structure of the Study | 第21-23页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第23-42页 |
| ·The Detailed Definitions of Collocation | 第23-27页 |
| ·The Classification of Collocation | 第27-32页 |
| ·Classification in Terms of Its Character and Function | 第27-30页 |
| ·Classification in Terms of Degree of Collocation Restriction | 第30-31页 |
| ·Classification in Terms of Word Nature | 第31-32页 |
| ·The Identification of English Collocation | 第32页 |
| ·Previous Studies on English Collocations in EFL Context | 第32-34页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis | 第34-35页 |
| ·The Study of Error Analysis | 第35-39页 |
| ·Error Explanation from the Perspective of Lexical Representation | 第37-39页 |
| ·Detailed Definitions of Writing Accuracy and Fluency | 第39-42页 |
| ·T-unit and Error-free T-units | 第39-40页 |
| ·Writing Accuracy | 第40页 |
| ·Writing Fluency | 第40-42页 |
| Chapter 3 Research Methodology and Implementation | 第42-58页 |
| ·Overview of the Design for the Research | 第42-43页 |
| ·Participants of the Study | 第43-45页 |
| ·Detailed Information for Choosing the Chinese Advanced English Learners | 第43-44页 |
| ·Detailed Information for Choosing the Native Speakers' Group | 第44-45页 |
| ·Time Span of the Study | 第45页 |
| ·Instruments | 第45-47页 |
| ·The Language Proficiency Test Scores | 第45页 |
| ·Writing Tasks | 第45-46页 |
| ·Dictionaries and Corpus | 第46-47页 |
| ·The Implementation Procedure of the Study | 第47-50页 |
| ·Choosing the Qualified Participants | 第47-48页 |
| ·Settling the Writing Topics | 第48页 |
| ·Pilot Study | 第48-49页 |
| ·Participants' Feedback from the Pilot Study | 第49页 |
| ·The Main Study | 第49-50页 |
| ·Data Collection and Processing | 第50-58页 |
| ·Demarcations between Collocations and Non-collocations | 第50-51页 |
| ·Identifying Collocation Errors | 第51-53页 |
| ·Identifying Writing Errors | 第53-54页 |
| ·Measurement of Writing Quality | 第54-56页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第56-58页 |
| Chapter 4 the Presentation of the Research Results | 第58-66页 |
| ·The Results of Two Writing Tests in Main Study | 第58-63页 |
| ·The Results of Frequency of GL and LC in Native and Non-Natives' Writings | 第63-64页 |
| ·Collocational Error Types in the Writing by the Chinese Advanced Learners | 第64-66页 |
| Chapter 5 Analysis and Discussion | 第66-82页 |
| ·Correlation between the Use of Collocations and the Quality of Writing | 第66-68页 |
| ·Collocation Comparison between the Native and the Non-Natives in Their Writing | 第68-71页 |
| ·Use of Grammatical Collocation in Native and Non-natives' Composition | 第69-70页 |
| ·Use of Lexical Collocation in Native and Non-natives' Composition | 第70-71页 |
| ·Analysis on Common Collocation Errors in Non-Natives' Writing | 第71-82页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第82-89页 |
| ·Conclusions | 第82-83页 |
| ·Correlative Relationship between Collocation Competence and Writing Ability | 第82页 |
| ·Comparison between Native and Non-native in terms of Using Collocation in their Writing | 第82-83页 |
| ·Analysis of Collocational Error in Chinese English Learner's Writing | 第83页 |
| ·Recommendations for Language Teachers in Language Teaching Classroom Teaching Classroom | 第83-86页 |
| ·Recommendations for Language Learners | 第86-87页 |
| ·Limitations and Recommendations for the Further Study | 第87-89页 |
| Bibliography | 第89-94页 |
| Appendix 1 Writing Topic Prepared for the Participants | 第94页 |
| Appendix 2 Analytic Methods of Scoring the Writing Samples | 第94-96页 |
| Appendix 3 Some Writing Samples in Main Study | 第96-101页 |
