| 摘要 | 第1-3页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第3-6页 |
| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第6-9页 |
| ·IMPORTANCE OF THE RESEARCH | 第6-7页 |
| ·PURPOSE OF THIS THESIS | 第7-8页 |
| ·APPROACHES TO THE PRESENT STUDY | 第8页 |
| ·STRUCTURE OF THE DISSERTATION | 第8-9页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第9-33页 |
| ·RESEARCHES ON POLYSEMY | 第9-19页 |
| ·Introduction to polysemy | 第9-12页 |
| ·Motivation of Polysemy from cognitive point of view | 第12-19页 |
| ·THEORIES OF MEMORY | 第19-22页 |
| ·Memory, Short term memory(STM) and Long term memory(LTM) | 第19-20页 |
| ·Information processing system | 第20页 |
| ·Processes of learning and memory | 第20-21页 |
| ·Dual coding theory | 第21-22页 |
| ·Ways of Measuring Memory | 第22页 |
| ·THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL BACKGROUND OF VOCABULARY ACQUISITION | 第22-31页 |
| ·Incidental second language vocabulary learning | 第22-25页 |
| ·Glossing and vocabulary acquisition | 第25-27页 |
| ·Attention and vocabulary learning | 第27-28页 |
| ·Anderson’s “semantic mapping hypothesis” | 第28页 |
| ·Depth of processing | 第28-30页 |
| ·Involvement hypothesis | 第30-31页 |
| ·RELEVANT RESEARCHES ABOUT THE ACQUISITION OF POLYSEMIC WORDS | 第31-33页 |
| CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH | 第33-39页 |
| ·RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND HYPOTHESIS | 第33-34页 |
| ·SUBJECTS | 第34页 |
| ·MATERIALS | 第34-35页 |
| ·THE INSTRUMENT | 第35-37页 |
| ·PROCEDURE | 第37-39页 |
| ·Pilot Study | 第37页 |
| ·Main study | 第37-39页 |
| CHAPTER 4 RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS | 第39-47页 |
| ·THE EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS | 第39-44页 |
| ·Results of the Research Question 1 | 第39-41页 |
| ·Results to the second research question | 第41-43页 |
| ·Results to the third research question | 第43-44页 |
| ·CONCLUSIONS | 第44-47页 |
| ·The First finding | 第44-45页 |
| ·The second finding | 第45-46页 |
| ·The third finding | 第46-47页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUDING REMARKS | 第47-51页 |
| ·SIGNIFICANCE | 第47-49页 |
| ·Significance in glossing polysemous words | 第47-48页 |
| ·Significance in vocabulary teaching | 第48-49页 |
| ·LIMITATIONS | 第49页 |
| ·SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCHES | 第49-51页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第51-52页 |
| REFERENCES | 第52-57页 |
| Appendix | 第57-65页 |
