| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Table of Contents | 第7-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-13页 |
| ·The origin of the study | 第9页 |
| ·Rationale for the study | 第9-11页 |
| ·The structure of the thesis | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第13-49页 |
| ·Learner autonomy and autonomous learning | 第13-30页 |
| ·Definition of learner autonomy | 第14-20页 |
| ·Theoretical foundations of learner autonomy | 第20-25页 |
| ·Autonomous vocabulary learning | 第25-30页 |
| ·Corpus and concordance | 第30-49页 |
| ·Review of corpus | 第30-34页 |
| ·Concordance | 第34-37页 |
| ·Application of corpus and concordancing | 第37-46页 |
| ·The formation of working approach with corpora | 第46-49页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第49-55页 |
| ·Research questions | 第49页 |
| ·Subjects | 第49-50页 |
| ·Instruments and methods involved in the research | 第50-51页 |
| ·Procedures | 第51-55页 |
| ·The control group | 第52页 |
| ·The experimental group | 第52-55页 |
| Chapter Four Data Collection and Analysis | 第55-69页 |
| ·Data collection and processing | 第55-57页 |
| ·Qualitative data | 第55页 |
| ·Quantitative data | 第55-57页 |
| ·Comparison of the vocabulary achievement in the pre-test | 第57-58页 |
| ·Comparison of the vocabulary achievement in the post-test | 第58-59页 |
| ·Analysis of the questionnaires and interviews | 第59-64页 |
| ·Results and Discussion | 第64-69页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第69-75页 |
| ·Major findings | 第69-70页 |
| ·Implications | 第70-71页 |
| ·Limitations | 第71-72页 |
| ·Recommendations for further study | 第72-75页 |
| References | 第75-81页 |
| Appendices | 第81-90页 |
| Appendix 1 Questionnaire for the Learners | 第81-83页 |
| Appendix 2 Test example for pre-test and post-test | 第83-86页 |
| Appendix 3 Examples for traditional & corpus-based approaches | 第86-87页 |
| Appendix 4 Vocabulary achievements of two groups before the experiment | 第87-88页 |
| Appendix 5 Vocabulary achievements of two groups after the experiment | 第88-89页 |
| Appendix 6 攻读学位期间取得的研究成果 | 第89-90页 |
