| 中文摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| Chapter one Literature review on language transfer | 第13-28页 |
| ·Historical review on transfer studies | 第13-24页 |
| ·Behaviorism and early thinking on language transfer | 第13-16页 |
| ·Language transfer in relation to the interlanguage theory | 第16-19页 |
| ·Transfer in relation to linguistic universals | 第19-21页 |
| ·Transfer studies from cognitive and psychological perspective | 第21-24页 |
| ·Theoretical study on constraints on language transfer | 第24-28页 |
| ·Markedness | 第24-26页 |
| ·Prototypicality | 第26-27页 |
| ·Language distance and psychotypology | 第27-28页 |
| Chapter two The "bad" experiment design | 第28-37页 |
| ·The "bad" experiment based on Kellerman's researches | 第28-32页 |
| ·Previous researches by Kellerman | 第28-30页 |
| ·Differences of the "bad" experiment compared with Kellerman's study | 第30-32页 |
| ·Experiment design and data collection | 第32-37页 |
| ·Hypotheses | 第32-33页 |
| ·Subjects and methods | 第33-36页 |
| ·Questionnaire and data collection | 第36-37页 |
| Chapter three Data analysis and findings | 第37-46页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第37-43页 |
| ·Major findings | 第43页 |
| ·Limitations | 第43-44页 |
| ·Recommendations for future research | 第44-46页 |
| Chapter four Implications to positive transfer in English vocabulary learning | 第46-50页 |
| ·Understanding the role of L1 | 第46-47页 |
| ·Balance between unterlingual similarities and differences | 第47-48页 |
| ·Attempts to improve learners' consciousness of interlingual similarities | 第48-49页 |
| ·Knowledge to be mastered for college English teachers | 第49-50页 |
| Conclusion | 第50-51页 |
| Bibliography | 第51-54页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第54-55页 |
| Appendix I | 第55-56页 |
| Appendix II | 第56-57页 |
