| CHINESE ABSTRACT | 第1-7页 |
| ENGLISH ABSTRCT | 第7-8页 |
| AKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第8-11页 |
| FIGURES AND TABLES | 第11-13页 |
| ABBREVEIATIONS | 第13-14页 |
| CHAPTER ONE Introduction | 第14-18页 |
| ·Rationale of the present study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Research questions | 第16页 |
| ·Organization of the chapters | 第16-18页 |
| CHAPTER TWO Literature Review of Mental Lexicon | 第18-33页 |
| ·The notion of mental lexicon | 第18-19页 |
| ·Definition of mental lexicon | 第18-19页 |
| ·Comparison between mental lexicon and dictionaries | 第19页 |
| ·Studies on the organization of L1 mental lexicon | 第19-24页 |
| ·The internal structure of L1 mental lexicon | 第19-20页 |
| ·Semantic organization of L1 mental lexicon | 第20-21页 |
| ·Hierarchical network model | 第21-22页 |
| ·Spreading activation model | 第22-24页 |
| ·Studies on the organization of L2 mental lexicon | 第24-26页 |
| ·Phonological view | 第24-25页 |
| ·Semantic view | 第25-26页 |
| ·Jang’s three stages of lexical development in L2 | 第26-29页 |
| ·The formal stage | 第27-28页 |
| ·The L1 lemma mediation stage | 第28页 |
| ·The L2 integration stage | 第28-29页 |
| ·Studies on relationship between L1 and L2 mental lexicon | 第29-31页 |
| ·The shared distributional asymmetrical model | 第30-31页 |
| ·Empirical studies on mental lexicon in China | 第31页 |
| ·Limitations of the previous research | 第31-33页 |
| CHAPTER THREE Research Methodology | 第33-42页 |
| ·Research questions | 第33页 |
| ·Method | 第33-42页 |
| ·Subjects | 第33-35页 |
| ·Instrument | 第35-36页 |
| ·Selection of prompt words | 第36页 |
| ·Pilot studies | 第36-37页 |
| ·Procedures and instructions | 第37-38页 |
| ·Data collection | 第38-39页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第39-42页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR Results and Analysis | 第42-61页 |
| ·Quantitative results | 第42-52页 |
| ·Response patterns according to L2 learners of three different grades | 第42-46页 |
| ·Overall distribution of response types | 第42-44页 |
| ·Comparison of each response type within each grade | 第44页 |
| ·Comparison of each response type among the three grades | 第44-46页 |
| ·Response patterns according to three different word classes | 第46-52页 |
| ·Overall distribution of response types for nouns | 第46-48页 |
| ·Overall distribution of response types for verbs | 第48-50页 |
| ·Overall distribution of response types for adjectives | 第50-52页 |
| ·Qualitative results | 第52-59页 |
| ·Semantic links | 第52-57页 |
| ·Response words for the chosen prompt words in semantic links | 第53-54页 |
| ·First reaction from the subjects in the association test | 第54-55页 |
| ·Discussion: semantic links | 第55-57页 |
| ·Phonological links | 第57-59页 |
| ·Semantically unrelated phonological links | 第58页 |
| ·Phonological links from the same word family | 第58-59页 |
| ·Major findings | 第59-61页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE Implications and Conclusions | 第61-68页 |
| ·Implications for L2 vocabulary teaching | 第61-65页 |
| ·Theoretical implications | 第61-63页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications | 第63-65页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第65-66页 |
| ·Limitations of the present study and suggestions for further research | 第66-68页 |
| References | 第68-71页 |
| Appendix | 第71页 |
