| 摘要 | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-16页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第16-20页 |
| ·Introduction | 第16页 |
| ·The Need for the Study | 第16-17页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第17-19页 |
| ·Theoretical Significance | 第17-18页 |
| ·Pedagogical Significance | 第18-19页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第19-20页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第20-37页 |
| ·Clarification of Concepts | 第20-21页 |
| ·Mental Lexicon | 第20-21页 |
| ·Word Association | 第21页 |
| ·Theories and Study on the Organization of L1 Mental Lexicon | 第21-26页 |
| ·Semantic Organization | 第22-25页 |
| ·Phonological Organization | 第25-26页 |
| ·Theories and Study on the English mental lexicon | 第26-30页 |
| ·Phonologically-Associated Organization | 第26-28页 |
| ·Semantically-Dominated Organization | 第28-29页 |
| ·Syntactically-Dominated Organization | 第29-30页 |
| ·Word Association Test | 第30-34页 |
| ·An Brief Introduction to the Word Association Test | 第31-32页 |
| ·Studies on the Word Association Test | 第32-33页 |
| ·Word-related Variables Relevant to WAT | 第33-34页 |
| ·Word Class | 第33-34页 |
| ·Word Frequency | 第34页 |
| ·Unsolved Issues | 第34-35页 |
| ·Summary | 第35-37页 |
| Chapter Three Research Methodology | 第37-47页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第37页 |
| ·Methodology | 第37-45页 |
| ·Participants | 第37-38页 |
| ·Instruments | 第38-41页 |
| ·The Vocabulary Knowledge Scale Test(VKS) | 第38-39页 |
| ·Word Association Test(WAT) | 第39-40页 |
| ·Stimulus Word Selection | 第40-41页 |
| ·Data Analysis Procedures | 第41-45页 |
| ·Data Collecting Process | 第41-42页 |
| ·Word Association Response Classification | 第42-45页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第45页 |
| ·Summary | 第45-47页 |
| Chapter4 Results and Discussion | 第47-66页 |
| ·The Overall Response Patterns in English mental lexiconOrganization | 第47-56页 |
| ·Comparison of Each Response Type within Each Grade | 第47-50页 |
| ·Comparison of Each Response Type among the Three Grades | 第50-56页 |
| ·Word Class Effect | 第56-60页 |
| ·The Overall Proportion of Response Types for Nouns | 第56-57页 |
| ·The Overall Proportion of Response Types for Verbs | 第57-58页 |
| ·The Overall Proportion of Response Types for Adjectives | 第58-60页 |
| ·Word Frequency Effect | 第60-61页 |
| ·Discussion | 第61-65页 |
| ·The Overall Characteristics of English mental lexicon Organization | 第61-63页 |
| ·Word Class Efect | 第63-64页 |
| ·Word Frequency Effect | 第64-65页 |
| ·Summary | 第65-66页 |
| Chapter five Implication and conclusion | 第66-75页 |
| ·Major Findings on the English mental lexicon Organization | 第66页 |
| ·Implications for English Vocabulary Acquisition | 第66-72页 |
| ·Theoretical Implications | 第67-68页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications | 第68-72页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study | 第72-73页 |
| ·Recommendations for Future Research | 第73页 |
| ·Summary | 第73-75页 |
| References | 第75-79页 |
| Appendix | 第79-85页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第85页 |
