| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-8页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第8-11页 |
| ·Preposition and Its Importance in EFL Learning | 第8-9页 |
| ·Difficulties for EFL Learners | 第9-10页 |
| ·Aims of the Present Study | 第10-11页 |
| 2 Literature Review | 第11-28页 |
| ·Views of English Prepositions | 第11-13页 |
| ·Definition of Preposition | 第11页 |
| ·Significance of Prepositions | 第11-12页 |
| ·Preposition Learning of Chinese English Learners | 第12-13页 |
| ·English Prepositions Studied by Linguists from Different Perspectives | 第13-16页 |
| ·Traditional Grammar Study of Prepositions | 第13页 |
| ·Cognitive Study of English Prepositions | 第13-14页 |
| ·Structuralist and Functionalist Study of English Prepositions | 第14-15页 |
| ·Comments on the Above Study of English Prepositions | 第15-16页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis | 第16-17页 |
| ·Error Analysis | 第17-21页 |
| ·Errors | 第18-19页 |
| ·Prepositional Errors and Previous Studies of Prepositional Errors | 第19-21页 |
| ·Corpus-based Analysis and Computer-assisted Error Analysis | 第21-28页 |
| ·Computer-assisted Error Analysis | 第21页 |
| ·Computer-assisted Error Analysis versus Traditional Error Analysis | 第21-23页 |
| ·Corpus | 第23-24页 |
| ·Learner Corpus | 第24页 |
| ·Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching | 第24-26页 |
| ·Corpus-based Study in China | 第26-27页 |
| ·Prepositional Use in Chinese Learner English Corpus | 第27-28页 |
| 3 Methodology | 第28-30页 |
| ·Corpus-based Study | 第28页 |
| ·Wordsmith Tools | 第28-30页 |
| 4 Research Procedures | 第30-40页 |
| ·Topic Selection | 第30-32页 |
| ·Organizing Databases for the Present Study (DUT, Brown) | 第32-33页 |
| ·Data Processing | 第33-40页 |
| ·Making Concordance Lines | 第33-35页 |
| ·Classification of Preposition in | 第35-36页 |
| ·Annotation and Making Concordance Lines of Each Use of Preposition in | 第36-40页 |
| 5 Results and discussions | 第40-48页 |
| ·Overall Frequencies of Preposition in in DUT Learners' Corpus and Brown Corpus and Comparisons between Them | 第40-41页 |
| ·Causes of Overuse and Underuse Situation of Preposition in | 第41-42页 |
| ·Incorrect Utilization of Preposition in | 第42-48页 |
| ·Collection and Description of Errors | 第42-45页 |
| ·Causes of Error | 第45-48页 |
| 6 Conclusion and Pedagogical Implications | 第48-51页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第48页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications | 第48-51页 |
| Bibliography | 第51-54页 |
| Publications During MA Study | 第54-55页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第55-56页 |
