| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-9页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | 第11-14页 |
| List of Tables and Figures | 第14-15页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第15-18页 |
| ·Background of the Study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Need for the Study | 第16-17页 |
| ·Outline of the Thesis | 第17-18页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第18-31页 |
| ·Definitions of L2 Summary Writing | 第18-19页 |
| ·Theories concerning L2 Summary Writing | 第19-22页 |
| ·Krashen’s Input Hypothesis | 第19-20页 |
| ·Swain’s Output Hypothesis | 第20-21页 |
| ·Schema Theory | 第21-22页 |
| ·Empirical Studies on the Effects of Factors on the Quality of L2 Summary Writing | 第22-29页 |
| ·Previous studies on the effect of language proficiency on the quality of L2 summary writing | 第22-25页 |
| ·Previous studies on the effect of task difficulty on the quality of L2 summary writing | 第25-27页 |
| ·Previous studies on the effect of text difficulty on the quality of L2 summary writing | 第27-29页 |
| ·Problems in the Previous Studies | 第29-31页 |
| ·Deficiency in defining L2 summary writing | 第30页 |
| ·Deficiency in research design | 第30-31页 |
| CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY | 第31-39页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第31-32页 |
| ·Research Design | 第32页 |
| ·Subjects | 第32-33页 |
| ·Task Difficulty | 第33页 |
| ·L2 Summary Writing Quality | 第33-36页 |
| ·Instruments | 第36-37页 |
| ·Implementation of the Experiment | 第37页 |
| ·Scoring Method | 第37页 |
| ·Measures of L2 Summary Writing Quality | 第37-39页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 第39-51页 |
| ·The Influences of Language Proficiency and Task Difficulty on the Summariness of Summary Writing | 第39-41页 |
| ·Descriptive statistics for the summariness | 第39-40页 |
| ·Main effects and interaction of factors on summariness | 第40-41页 |
| ·The Influences of Language Proficiency and Task Difficulty on the Information Irrelevancy of Summary Writing | 第41-44页 |
| ·Descriptive statistics for the information irrelevancy | 第41-42页 |
| ·Main effects and interaction of factors on information irrelevancy | 第42-44页 |
| ·The Influences of Language Proficiency and Task Difficulty on the Information Redundancy of Summary Writing | 第44-45页 |
| ·Descriptive statistics for the information redundancy | 第44页 |
| ·Main effects and interaction of factors on information redundancy | 第44-45页 |
| ·The Influences of Language Proficiency and Task Difficulty on the Summary Writing Accuracy | 第45-47页 |
| ·Descriptive statistics of summary writing inaccuracy | 第45-46页 |
| ·Main effects and interaction of factors on summary writing inaccuracy | 第46-47页 |
| ·Discussion | 第47-51页 |
| ·Effect on summariness of L2 summary writing | 第47-48页 |
| ·Effect on irrelevancy of L2 summary writing | 第48-49页 |
| ·Effect on redundancy of L2 summary writing | 第49页 |
| ·Effect on inaccuracy of L2 summary writing | 第49-51页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第51-54页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第51-52页 |
| ·Implications | 第52-53页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions | 第53-54页 |
| REFERENCES | 第54-59页 |
| Appendixes | 第59-67页 |
| Appendix I | 第59-65页 |
| Appendix II | 第65-67页 |
| Appendix III | 第67页 |
