| Chapter One Introduction | 第1-19页 |
| ·Origins of the research | 第14-16页 |
| ·Method of the research | 第16-17页 |
| ·An overview of the thesis | 第17页 |
| ·Definition of Terms | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第19-39页 |
| ·Acquisition Studies on the English articles | 第19-34页 |
| ·First Language Article Acquisition Studies | 第19-20页 |
| ·Second Language Article Acquisition Studies | 第20-29页 |
| ·English articles acquisition researches on the Chinese learners | 第29-33页 |
| ·Summary of the Former Acquisition Studies | 第33-34页 |
| ·The NP in Chinese | 第34-39页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第39-46页 |
| ·Objectives | 第39页 |
| ·Participants | 第39页 |
| ·Instrument and materials | 第39-40页 |
| ·Research procedures | 第40-41页 |
| ·Analysis | 第41-46页 |
| Chapter Four Data Presentation and Discussion | 第46-70页 |
| ·Results and analysis of the test data | 第46-63页 |
| ·Comparative analysis among the three groups of SOC | 第46-51页 |
| ·Comparative analysis among the three groups of TLU | 第51-55页 |
| ·Comparative analysis among the three groups of UOC | 第55-58页 |
| ·Comparative analysis among three groups on the uses of the articles in [±SR, ±HK] contexts and idioms | 第58-62页 |
| ·Results of the interview | 第62-63页 |
| ·Discussion of the results | 第63-70页 |
| ·Acquisition orders of the articles | 第63-66页 |
| ·Difficulties in acquisition of articles’different semantic uses and the reasons | 第66-70页 |
| Chapter Five Pedagogical Implications and Suggestions | 第70-78页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications | 第70-71页 |
| ·Pedagogical suggestions | 第71-78页 |
| ·Previous proposals | 第71-75页 |
| ·Suggestions based on former studies and the present one | 第75-78页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第78-83页 |
| ·Significance of the research | 第78-79页 |
| ·Theoretical significance | 第78-79页 |
| ·Applied significance | 第79页 |
| ·Limitations of the present study | 第79-81页 |
| ·Recommendations for future research | 第81-83页 |
| Appendices | 第83-86页 |
| Appendix A Test 1 | 第83-84页 |
| Appendix B Test 2 | 第84-85页 |
| Appendix C The Interview | 第85-86页 |
| Bibliography | 第86-92页 |
| Notes | 第92页 |
