| Declaration | 第1-4页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第4-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Table of contents | 第8-10页 |
| List of Tables | 第10页 |
| List of Figure | 第10-11页 |
| Abbreviations | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-19页 |
| ·General research topic | 第12-14页 |
| ·Rationale for the Present Study | 第14-16页 |
| ·Key Research Questions | 第16-18页 |
| ·Contents of the Remaining Chapters | 第18-19页 |
| Chapter 2 Review of the Related Literature | 第19-32页 |
| ·Overview | 第19页 |
| ·Declarative pragmatic knowledge and procedural pragmatic knowledge | 第19-22页 |
| ·Distinction between the two types of pragmatic knowledge | 第19-21页 |
| ·Relationship between the two types of knowledge | 第21-22页 |
| ·Review of existing studies on interlanguage pragmatic development | 第22-24页 |
| ·Request making: a synthesis of research | 第24-29页 |
| ·The speech act of request-making | 第24-26页 |
| ·Request making in English | 第26-27页 |
| ·Request-making in Chinese | 第27-29页 |
| ·Summary and conclusions | 第29-32页 |
| Chapter 3 The Present Study | 第32-47页 |
| ·Specific research questions | 第32-33页 |
| ·Methods | 第33-41页 |
| ·Participants | 第33-34页 |
| ·Materials | 第34-39页 |
| ·English written discourse completion test (English WDCT) | 第34-37页 |
| ·Multiple-choice questionnaire (MCQ) | 第37-38页 |
| ·Chinese written discourse completion test (Chinese WDCT) | 第38-39页 |
| ·Questionnaire on acquisition of English pragmatic knowledge in the Chinese classroom setting | 第39页 |
| ·Procedures | 第39-41页 |
| ·Data presentation and analysis | 第41-47页 |
| ·English WDCT | 第41-44页 |
| ·MCQ | 第44-45页 |
| ·Chinese WDCT | 第45-46页 |
| ·Questionnaire | 第46-47页 |
| Chapter 4 the Results of the Study | 第47-65页 |
| ·Overview | 第47页 |
| ·Results for performance on the English WDCT | 第47-50页 |
| ·Results for performance on the MCQ by two participant groups | 第50-57页 |
| ·Results for the ranking of politeness degree of request forms | 第50-52页 |
| ·Result for choice of request forms and certainty of choices | 第52-55页 |
| ·Result for the reasons of choices | 第55-57页 |
| ·Results for comparison of English WDCT and MCQ at the two proficiency levels | 第57-61页 |
| ·Gap between WDCT and MCQ at the intermediate level | 第57-58页 |
| ·Gap between WDCT and MCQ at advanced level | 第58-59页 |
| ·Further examination of gap between procedural and declarative knowledge | 第59-61页 |
| ·Results for the change of gap with increase in proficiency | 第61-62页 |
| ·Results for questionnaire on acquisition of English pragmatic knowledge in the Chinese classroom setting | 第62-65页 |
| Chapter 5 Discussion, Conclusions, Pedagogical Implications, Limitations and Recommendations for Further Research | 第65-77页 |
| ·Overview | 第65页 |
| ·Major findings of the present study | 第65-66页 |
| ·Discussion | 第66-72页 |
| ·Lack of relationship between linguistic proficiency and procedural pragmatic knowledge | 第66-67页 |
| ·Lack of relationship between linguistic proficiency and declarative pragmatic knowledge | 第67-70页 |
| ·The gap between two types of pragmatic knowledge | 第70-72页 |
| ·Failure of gap to narrow down with increase in linguistic proficiency | 第72页 |
| ·Conclusions | 第72-73页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications | 第73-75页 |
| ·Limitations and recommendation for further research | 第75-77页 |
| References | 第77-81页 |
| Appendices | 第81-90页 |
| Appendix A 英语语用能力测试 | 第81-83页 |
| Appendix B 英语语用恰当性判断测试 | 第83-85页 |
| Appendix C 汉语语用能力测试 | 第85-86页 |
| Appendix D 英语语用知识学习与运用情况调查表 | 第86-87页 |
| Appendix E Comparison of production by two proficiency levels | 第87-89页 |
| Appendix F Comparison of judgment by two proficiency levels | 第89-90页 |
