| Abstract | 第1-3页 |
| 内容提要 | 第3-5页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第5-6页 |
| Introduction | 第6-9页 |
| ·The call of activities in education | 第6-7页 |
| ·Activities in English learning | 第7-9页 |
| Chapter 1 An Overview of Activities in Second Language Teaching | 第9-16页 |
| ·The development of 'activities' in second language teaching | 第9-10页 |
| ·Different models | 第10-12页 |
| ·Common characteristics of the activity approach in the west | 第12-13页 |
| ·Obstacles of the western activity approach in Chinese education | 第13-14页 |
| ·A suggested learning and teaching activity approach | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter 2 The Use of Activities in the Classroom | 第16-37页 |
| ·The theoretical bases of the suggested activity approach | 第16-19页 |
| ·The application of the activity approach in the reading course | 第19-36页 |
| ·Conclusive comments | 第36-37页 |
| Chapter 3 The Guidelines for the Design of Activities | 第37-41页 |
| ·Goal | 第37-38页 |
| ·Real life | 第38-39页 |
| ·Successive orientation | 第39页 |
| ·Heterogeneous orientation | 第39-40页 |
| ·Motivation | 第40-41页 |
| Chapter 4 Experiments Carried out in the Reading Course | 第41-48页 |
| ·Comparison between the activity approach and the traditional approach | 第41-45页 |
| ·Some widely used activities in the experimental class | 第45-46页 |
| ·Comments on the progress the students have made | 第46-47页 |
| ·Future problems to be solved | 第47-48页 |
| Conclusion | 第48-49页 |
| Appendixes | 第49-55页 |
| Notes | 第55页 |
| Bibliography | 第55-57页 |
| Synopsis | 第57-62页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第62-64页 |
