| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第4-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-19页 |
| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第19-27页 |
| ·BACKGROUND TO THE PRESENT STUDY | 第19-21页 |
| ·OBJECTIVES OF THE PRESENT STUDY | 第21-22页 |
| ·SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PRESENT STUDY | 第22-23页 |
| ·TERMINOLOGICAL ISSUES | 第23-24页 |
| ·IMPORTANT FEATURES OF THE PRESENT STUDY | 第24-25页 |
| ·ORGANIZATION OF THE DISSERTATION | 第25-27页 |
| CHAPTER 2 THEORETICAL BACKGROUND | 第27-64页 |
| ·INTRODUCTION | 第27页 |
| ·DEFINING FORMULAIC SEQUENCES | 第27-34页 |
| ·Criteria for formulaic sequences | 第28-32页 |
| ·Operational definition of FS | 第32-34页 |
| ·THEORETICAL STATUS OF FORMULAIC SEQUENCES | 第34-40页 |
| ·Role of memory in language use | 第34-37页 |
| ·The dual-mode system | 第37-40页 |
| ·NATURE OF FORMULAIC SEQUENCES | 第40-51页 |
| ·FSs as extended units of meaning | 第41-48页 |
| ·FSs as form-function composites | 第48-51页 |
| ·CLASSIFICATION OF FORMULAIC SEQUENCES | 第51-63页 |
| ·Review of existing taxonomies | 第51-56页 |
| ·A proposed taxonomy for the present study | 第56-63页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第63-64页 |
| CHAPTER 3 FORMULAIC SEQUENCES AND LANGUAGE LEARNING | 第64-85页 |
| ·INTRODUCTION | 第64页 |
| ·ROLES OF FSS IN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT | 第64-70页 |
| ·Achieving native-like selection and native-like fluency | 第64-66页 |
| ·Supporting social interaction | 第66-67页 |
| ·Facilitating language development | 第67-70页 |
| ·RELATED EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON FSS | 第70-84页 |
| ·FS use in EFL learner English | 第71-77页 |
| ·FS development in EFL learner English | 第77-81页 |
| ·Factors influencing FS learning | 第81-84页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第84-85页 |
| CHAPTER 4 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND RESEARCH DESIGN | 第85-108页 |
| ·INTRODUCTION | 第85页 |
| ·A TENTATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR FS STUDIES | 第85-88页 |
| ·RESEARCH QUESTIONS | 第88-89页 |
| ·RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: A CORPUS-DRIVEN MULTIPLE COMPARISON APPROACH TFORMULAIC SEQUENCES TO FORMULAIC SEQUENCES | 第89-94页 |
| ·Advantages of a corpus-driven approach to FS studies | 第89-91页 |
| ·A corpus-driven multiple comparison approach to FSs | 第91-94页 |
| ·CORPORA USED IN THE PRESENT STUDY | 第94-101页 |
| ·COET and MICASE | 第94-98页 |
| ·TCELT － The ELT textbook corpus | 第98-100页 |
| ·PFR －L1 corpus | 第100-101页 |
| ·TOOLS AND PROCEDURES FOR DATA ANALYSIS | 第101-107页 |
| ·Tools for FS extraction | 第101-104页 |
| ·Tools for FS analysis | 第104-106页 |
| ·Procedures for data analysis | 第106-107页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第107-108页 |
| CHAPTER 5 AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF FSS FROM ENGLISH CORPORA | 第108-132页 |
| ·INTRODUCTION | 第108-109页 |
| ·CURRENT APPROACHES TO FS EXTRACTION IN SLA | 第109-114页 |
| ·Intuition-based approach | 第109-111页 |
| ·Frequency-driven approach | 第111-113页 |
| ·Semantics-oriented approach | 第113-114页 |
| ·A PROPOSED APPROACH: COMBINING A LEXICON-BASED SYMBOLIC ALGORITHM WITH A COLLOCATION-BASED STATISTICAL ALGORITHM | 第114-123页 |
| ·Overview of the proposed approach | 第114-115页 |
| ·The lexicon-based symbolic algorithm | 第115-116页 |
| ·The collocation-based statistical algorithm | 第116-121页 |
| ·The language filter | 第121-123页 |
| ·EXPERIMENT | 第123-124页 |
| ·EVALUATION | 第124-131页 |
| ·Complementary effect of the two algorithms | 第125-128页 |
| ·The hybrid approach and the semantics-oriented approach | 第128-130页 |
| ·Robustness of FS extraction from EFL learner corpora | 第130-131页 |
| ·DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION | 第131-132页 |
| CHAPTER 6 FEATURES OF FSS IN CHINESE EFL LEARNERS’ SPOKEN ENGLISH (I) | 第132-168页 |
| ·INTRODUCTION | 第132页 |
| ·AMOUNT OF FS USE | 第132-154页 |
| ·Quantitative features of FS use in CALC | 第134-148页 |
| ·Quantitative features of FS development in COET | 第148-154页 |
| ·FORMAL FEATURES OF FSS | 第154-166页 |
| ·Distributional features of FSs in form in CALC | 第155-162页 |
| ·Developmental features of FSs in form in COET | 第162-166页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第166-168页 |
| CHAPTER 7 FEATURES OF FSS IN CHINESE EFL LEARNERS’ SPOKEN ENGLISH (II) | 第168-236页 |
| ·INTRODUCTION | 第168页 |
| ·SEMANTIC FEATURES OF FSS | 第168-205页 |
| ·Patterns of meanings realized by the FSs of THING | 第170-183页 |
| ·Patterns of meanings realized by the FP the + N_1+ of + N_2 | 第183-205页 |
| ·FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OF FSS | 第205-234页 |
| ·Distinctive features of functional use of FSs in CALC | 第206-228页 |
| ·Developmental patterns of functional use of FSs in COET | 第228-234页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第234-236页 |
| CHAPTER 8 MAJOR FINDINGS, IMPLICATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS | 第236-246页 |
| ·INTRODUCTION | 第236页 |
| ·SUMMARY OF THE MAJOR FINDINGS | 第236-241页 |
| ·Major findings concerning the distinctive patterns of FS use | 第236-237页 |
| ·Major findings concerning the patterns of FS development | 第237-239页 |
| ·Major findings concerning the mechanism manipulating the dual mode system | 第239-240页 |
| ·Major findings concerning the factors influencing FS learning | 第240-241页 |
| ·IMPLICATIONS | 第241-243页 |
| ·Theoretical implications | 第241-242页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications | 第242-243页 |
| ·LIMITATIONS OF THE PRESENT RESEARCH | 第243-244页 |
| ·RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH | 第244-246页 |
| REFERENCES | 第246-261页 |
| APPENDICES | 第261-267页 |
| 攻读博士学位期间发表的论文 | 第267-269页 |
