| Synopsis | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-18页 |
| 1 Significance and purposes of reading | 第12-14页 |
| 2 Purpose of research | 第14-17页 |
| 3 Overview of the thesis | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter Two An Overview of Research on Reading Process | 第18-29页 |
| 1 Gough's data-driven process | 第18-20页 |
| 2 Goodman's concept-driven process | 第20-23页 |
| 3 Rumelhart's interactive model of reading | 第23-24页 |
| 4 Bartlett's schema-theoretic view | 第24-27页 |
| 5 Summary:the nature of reading process and a new way to explore the reading process | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretic Framework—Relevance Theory and Its Explanatory Power for Reading Comprehension | 第29-49页 |
| ·Some important notions of Relevance Theory | 第29-32页 |
| ·Communication and reading | 第32-38页 |
| ·Communication and reading | 第32-34页 |
| ·The ostensive inferential model approach to reading comprehension | 第34-38页 |
| ·Cognitive environment and reading | 第38-42页 |
| ·Relevance and reading comprehension | 第42-47页 |
| ·Contextual effects and reading comprehension | 第42-45页 |
| ·Relevance and reading comprehension | 第45-47页 |
| ·Summary:the relevance-theoretic comprehension procedure | 第47-49页 |
| Chapter Four Case Study:Research on Students' Cognitive Strategy in Reading Comprehension | 第49-57页 |
| ·Objective and design of the survey and test | 第49-50页 |
| ·Methodology—on the survey | 第50-52页 |
| ·Participants | 第50页 |
| ·Group division | 第50-51页 |
| ·Results and data analysis of the survey | 第51-52页 |
| ·Methodology—on the test | 第52-55页 |
| ·Participants and group division | 第52-53页 |
| ·Results and data analysis of the test | 第53-55页 |
| ·Summary | 第55-57页 |
| Chapter Five Implications:the Relevance-based Strategy for Teaching Reading | 第57-66页 |
| ·Strategies and skill approach in teaching reading | 第57-58页 |
| ·The relevance-based strategy for teaching reading | 第58-65页 |
| ·Strategy used on the linguistic knowledge | 第58-63页 |
| ·To decide the semantic meaning of words in context:narrowing and loosening | 第58-61页 |
| ·To process main ideas on the basis of seeking relevance by locating signal words | 第61-63页 |
| ·Strategy used in non-linguistic knowledge | 第63-65页 |
| ·Emphasizing on building personal background knowledge input | 第63-64页 |
| ·Instructions of other reading skills | 第64-65页 |
| ·Summary | 第65-66页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第66-68页 |
| Works cited | 第68-73页 |
| Appendix | 第73-80页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第80页 |
