| 内容提要 | 第1-3页 |
| Abstract | 第3-4页 |
| 中文文摘 | 第4-7页 |
| Synopsis | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-16页 |
| ·The importance of English reading instruction | 第11页 |
| ·The current situation and problem of reading instruction | 第11-14页 |
| ·The significance of the present study | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter two Brief Introduction of Discourse Analysis and its Early Research | 第16-21页 |
| ·Early studies of discourse analysis | 第16页 |
| ·Discourse and Discourse analysis | 第16-19页 |
| ·Text flames and reading instruction | 第19-21页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Review of Discourse Analysis | 第21-32页 |
| ·The theory of lexical cohesion | 第21-24页 |
| ·The theory of textual coherence | 第24-26页 |
| ·The theory of thematic and information structures | 第26-32页 |
| Chapter Four Discourse Context and Reading Instruction | 第32-36页 |
| ·Discourse Context | 第32-35页 |
| ·Theories of discourse context | 第35页 |
| ·Contextual analysis in reading instruction | 第35-36页 |
| Chapter Five Application of Discourse Analysis in English Reading Instruction | 第36-44页 |
| ·Application of discourse analysis in English reading instruction | 第36-40页 |
| ·The model of application of discourse analysis in reading instruction | 第40-43页 |
| ·The significance of applying discourse analysis to teaching practice | 第43-44页 |
| Chapter Six Research Design and Experiment with the Approach | 第44-57页 |
| ·Research design and experiment Procedure | 第44-46页 |
| ·Results of the experiment and analyses | 第46-52页 |
| ·Design of questionnaire | 第52-54页 |
| ·Analysis of the data from the questionnaire | 第54-57页 |
| Chapter Seven Conclusion and Implication | 第57-58页 |
| References | 第58-60页 |
| Appendix | 第60-62页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第62页 |