| Synopsis in Chinese | 第1-3页 |
| Synopsis in English | 第3-5页 |
| Preface | 第5-10页 |
| Chapter One The Causes of the Studies | 第10-13页 |
| Chapter Two Theoretical Foundation | 第13-26页 |
| 1 How do the students learn a new language? | 第14-19页 |
| 2 What will influence the learning efficiency? | 第19-24页 |
| 3 What are the present conditions for learning? | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter Three A Survey of Relevant Research | 第26-44页 |
| 1 The role of L1 in L2 learning | 第26-32页 |
| 2 The role of L1 in L2 teaching | 第32-36页 |
| 3 Major teaching approaches in L2 teaching | 第36-44页 |
| Chapter Four The Native Language and the Junior High School English Teaching | 第44-55页 |
| 1 Using the L1 to compare with the L2 | 第46-51页 |
| 2 Using L1 to express some meaning that can't be expressed in L2 | 第51-52页 |
| 3 Using 'poor Chinese' to learn the L2's sentence structure | 第52页 |
| 4 Using L1 to add the reading materials' interest | 第52-55页 |
| Chapter Five Experiments | 第55-58页 |
| 1 The aim of the experiments | 第55页 |
| 2 The content of the experiments | 第55页 |
| 3 The tested students in the experiments | 第55页 |
| 4 The way of the experiments | 第55-56页 |
| 5 The time length of the experiments | 第56页 |
| 6 The result of the experiments | 第56页 |
| 7 The problems in the experiments | 第56-58页 |
| Conclusion | 第58-59页 |
| Bibliography | 第59-63页 |
| Appendix | 第63-65页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第65-67页 |