| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-13页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第13-16页 |
| CHAPTER TWO CORPUS AND CORPUS LINGUISTICS | 第16-23页 |
| ·DEFINITION OF CORPUS AND CORPUS LINGUISTICS | 第16-17页 |
| ·HISTORY OF CORPUS LINGUISTICS | 第17-18页 |
| ·CLASSIFICATION OF CORPUS-BASED RESEARCHES | 第18-19页 |
| ·BASIC PROCESSES IN THE STUDY OF COLLOCATION THROUGH CORPUS DATA | 第19-23页 |
| CHAPTER THREE A GENERAL SURVEY OF COLLOCATION | 第23-31页 |
| ·WHAT IS COLLOCATION? | 第23-25页 |
| ·ROLE OF COLLOCATION IN ORAL PROFICIENCY | 第25-27页 |
| ·EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF VERB-NOUN COLLOCATIONS | 第27-31页 |
| ·Studies of Verb-Noun Collocations in Foreign English Learners | 第28-29页 |
| ·Studies of Verb-Noun Collocations in Chinese Learners of English | 第29-31页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR RESEARCH METHODOLOGY | 第31-39页 |
| ·OBJECTIVES | 第31页 |
| ·THE CORPORA USED IN THIS STUDY—SECCL AND MICASE | 第31-34页 |
| ·Description of SECCL | 第31-33页 |
| ·Description of MICASE | 第33-34页 |
| ·INSTRUMENT | 第34-37页 |
| ·Antconc 3.1.302 | 第34页 |
| ·SPSS 13.0 | 第34-35页 |
| ·Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English | 第35-36页 |
| ·Google | 第36-37页 |
| ·DATA COLLECTION | 第37-39页 |
| ·Data Preparation | 第37页 |
| ·Identification of Verb-Noun Collocations | 第37-39页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 第39-58页 |
| ·OVERALL RESULTS | 第39-50页 |
| ·Free Combinations | 第40-43页 |
| ·Restricted Collocations | 第43-46页 |
| ·Incorrect Collocations | 第46-50页 |
| ·RELATION BETWEEN COLLOCATION FREQUENCY AND SPEAKING SCORES | 第50-53页 |
| ·ANALYSIS OF COLLOCATE FREQUENCY OF TWO KWICS | 第53-58页 |
| ·Analysis of Noun Collocates of Verbs | 第53-55页 |
| ·Analysis of Verb Collocates of Nouns | 第55-58页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION | 第58-64页 |
| ·MAJOR FINDINGS | 第58-59页 |
| ·PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS | 第59-63页 |
| ·SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH | 第63-64页 |
| REFERENCES | 第64-68页 |
| APPENDIX I | 第68-69页 |
| APPENDIX II | 第69-70页 |
| APPENDIX III | 第70-71页 |
| PUBLICATION | 第71页 |
