| ABSTRACT | 第1-4页 |
| 摘要 | 第4-6页 |
| CONTENTS | 第6-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-13页 |
| ·Background and Purpose of the Research | 第9-10页 |
| ·Significance of the Research | 第10-11页 |
| ·The Importance of the Instruction of English Reading | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第13-21页 |
| ·Reading Instruction | 第13-18页 |
| ·The Definitions of Reading | 第13-15页 |
| ·Reading Process | 第15-16页 |
| ·Traditional Teaching Method | 第16-18页 |
| ·Previous Researches on Applying the Topic Theory to EFL Reading Instruction | 第18-19页 |
| ·Previous Researches on Applying the Topic Theory to English Reading Instruction in China | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Three Topic Theory and English Reading Teaching | 第21-43页 |
| ·Discourse Analysis | 第21-23页 |
| ·Background Knowledge | 第21-22页 |
| ·Discourse and English Reading Teaching | 第22-23页 |
| ·The Definition of Topic | 第23-26页 |
| ·The Types of the Topic Sentence | 第26-29页 |
| ·Explicit Topic Sentence | 第27-28页 |
| ·Implied Topic Sentence | 第28-29页 |
| ·The Position of the Topic Sentence | 第29-34页 |
| ·Initial Segment | 第29-30页 |
| ·Middle Segment | 第30-31页 |
| ·Concluding Segment | 第31-32页 |
| ·The Initial and the Concluding Segment | 第32-33页 |
| ·No Topic Sentence in the Paragraph | 第33-34页 |
| ·Topic-marking Devices | 第34-37页 |
| ·Paragraph | 第34-35页 |
| ·Paratone | 第35-36页 |
| ·Explicit Linguistic Markers | 第36-37页 |
| ·Topic-emphasizing Devices | 第37-43页 |
| ·Using Explicit Indicators | 第37-38页 |
| ·Using Left-displaced Structures | 第38-39页 |
| ·Lengthening the Discussion of the Topic in Discourse | 第39-40页 |
| ·Using Special Constructions | 第40-43页 |
| Chapter Four Research Procedure for Classroom Experiment .. | 第43-59页 |
| ·Subjects in the experiment | 第43页 |
| ·Teaching Materials | 第43页 |
| ·Data-collection | 第43-49页 |
| ·Procedures for the Control Group | 第43-44页 |
| ·Procedures for the Experimental Group | 第44-49页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第49-54页 |
| ·Results and Analysis of the Pre-test | 第49-51页 |
| ·Results and Analysis of the Pose-test | 第51-54页 |
| ·Discussion | 第54-59页 |
| ·Findings | 第54-55页 |
| ·The implication of the findings | 第55-59页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第59-63页 |
| ·A Brief Summary of the Whole Research Paper | 第59页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study | 第59-60页 |
| ·Suggestions for Future Research | 第60-63页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第63-67页 |
| Appendix Reading Comprehension | 第67-77页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第77-78页 |
| PUBLISHED PAPER | 第78页 |
