| ABSTRACT | 第1-8页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第8-11页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第11-12页 |
| LIST OF TABLES | 第12-13页 |
| LIST OF FIGURES | 第13-14页 |
| ABBREVIATIONS | 第14-18页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第18-26页 |
| ·Origin of the Study | 第18-20页 |
| ·Aims of the Study | 第20-22页 |
| ·Delimitation of the Scope of the Study | 第22-23页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第23-26页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第26-49页 |
| ·L2 Development in Fluency, Complexity and Accuracy | 第26-31页 |
| ·Fluency | 第26-27页 |
| ·Complexity | 第27-28页 |
| ·Accuracy | 第28页 |
| ·Cognitive Viewpoints of L2 Development in Fluency, Complexity and Accuracy | 第28-31页 |
| ·In Quest of An Index of L2 Development | 第31-39页 |
| ·L1 Developmental Indices | 第32-34页 |
| ·From L1 Developmental Indices to An Index of L2 Development | 第34-37页 |
| ·Follow-on Studies with Developmental Measures | 第37-39页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Objective Measures of L2 Development | 第39-46页 |
| ·Relationship among Measures | 第39-40页 |
| ·Relationship between Measures and Proficiency Levels | 第40-45页 |
| ·Summary: Weaknesses of Previous Studies on L2 Developmental Measures | 第45-46页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第46-49页 |
| CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY | 第49-60页 |
| ·Composition of the Corpus | 第49-50页 |
| ·Annotation of the Corpus | 第50-54页 |
| ·Tagging Elements | 第50-51页 |
| ·Tagging Procedures | 第51-52页 |
| ·Reliability of Tagging | 第52-54页 |
| ·Concordance of the Corpus | 第54-56页 |
| ·Objective Measures to Be Searched | 第54-55页 |
| ·Self-Designed Software | 第55-56页 |
| ·Output of the Scores | 第56页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第56-60页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR DATA ANALYSIS AND RESULTS | 第60-84页 |
| ·General Description of the 18 Objective Measures | 第60-62页 |
| ·Results of Exploratory Factor Analysis | 第62-68页 |
| ·Results of Partial Least-Squares Regression | 第68-69页 |
| ·ANOVA Results | 第69-76页 |
| ·Fluency Measures | 第69-72页 |
| ·Complexity Measures | 第72-73页 |
| ·Accuracy Measures | 第73-74页 |
| ·Total Scores of the Measures | 第74-76页 |
| ·Summary | 第76页 |
| ·Correlations between Each Measure and the Total Score | 第76-78页 |
| ·Results of Discriminant Analyses | 第78-84页 |
| ·All the Measures Included | 第79页 |
| ·Fluency Measures Included | 第79-80页 |
| ·Complexity Measure Included | 第80页 |
| ·Accuracy Measures Included | 第80-81页 |
| ·Sentence-Based Measures Included | 第81-82页 |
| ·T-Unit-Based Measures Included | 第82页 |
| ·Clause-Based Measures Included | 第82-83页 |
| ·Summary | 第83-84页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE DISCUSSION | 第84-96页 |
| ·Relationship among Measures | 第84-87页 |
| ·Relationship between Measures and Grade Level | 第87-96页 |
| ·Route and Rate of L2 Syntactic Development | 第88-91页 |
| ·Best Measures for the English Majors | 第91-92页 |
| ·Best Sets of Measures for Higher and Lower Levels | 第92-96页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION | 第96-100页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第96-98页 |
| ·Implications of the Study | 第98页 |
| ·Limitations of the Research and Suggestions for Future Studies | 第98-100页 |
| REFERENCES | 第100-108页 |
| APPENDICES | 第108-133页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ Rubrics and Samples for Sentences, T-units, Clauses, Word Counts, and Errors | 第108-113页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ A Sample Tagged Text | 第113-114页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ Computer Program of the Self-Made Concordance Software | 第114-129页 |
| Appendix Ⅳ Formulae to Change the Original Measures to the Target Measures | 第129-130页 |
| Appendix Ⅴ Means for the 18 Objective Measures | 第130-133页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间主要科研成果目录 | 第133页 |
