| Abstract | 第1-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| List of Figures and Tables | 第11-13页 |
| List of Abbreviation | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第14-17页 |
| ·Purpose of the study | 第14页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第14-15页 |
| ·The organization of the thesis | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第17-29页 |
| ·Studies on the acquisition of English articles in L1 | 第17-18页 |
| ·Studies on the acquisition of English articles in L2 | 第18-24页 |
| ·Morpheme study period | 第18页 |
| ·Criterion paradigm period | 第18-19页 |
| ·Semantic wheel period | 第19-24页 |
| ·Studies on English articles by Chinese learners | 第24-26页 |
| ·Studies in other countries | 第24-26页 |
| ·Studies in China | 第26页 |
| ·Summary of the former studies | 第26-29页 |
| Chapter 3 Typological Differences and L2 Article Acquisition | 第29-38页 |
| ·Zero contrast and L2 article acquisition | 第29-31页 |
| ·The typological difference of sentence structures and L2 article acquisition | 第31-33页 |
| ·The noun phrase typology and L2 article acquisition | 第33-38页 |
| Chapter 4 Theoretical Framework | 第38-49页 |
| ·Bickerton’s semantic wheel model | 第38-39页 |
| ·Interlanguage | 第39-43页 |
| ·Definition of interlanguage and its development | 第39-40页 |
| ·The causes of interlanguage | 第40-41页 |
| ·The nature of the interlanguage | 第41-43页 |
| ·The Stages of interlanguage development | 第43页 |
| ·Language transfer | 第43-49页 |
| ·Behaviorist views and contrastive studies: 19405-19605 | 第44-45页 |
| ·Mentalist views: late 19605-19705 | 第45-47页 |
| ·Cognitive views: late 19705 and early 19805-to date | 第47-49页 |
| Chapter 5 Methodology | 第49-59页 |
| ·Research questions | 第49页 |
| ·Instruments | 第49-51页 |
| ·CLEC | 第50-51页 |
| ·SPSS | 第51页 |
| ·Materials of the study | 第51-52页 |
| ·Data collection and retrieving | 第52-59页 |
| ·The classification of NP type and article tagging | 第53-56页 |
| ·Error concordancing and counting | 第56-59页 |
| Chapter 6 Results and Discussions | 第59-79页 |
| ·An overview of the use of the articles | 第59-61页 |
| ·Results of descriptive analyses | 第61-72页 |
| ·Article uses in each semantic context | 第62-67页 |
| ·Article uses before count and uncountable NPs | 第67-69页 |
| ·Article uses before singular and plural NPs | 第69-72页 |
| ·Discussion of the results | 第72-77页 |
| ·Effect of semantic feature on the use of articles | 第72-75页 |
| ·Effect of countability on the use of articles | 第75-76页 |
| ·Effect of number on the use of articles | 第76-77页 |
| ·Summary | 第77-79页 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusion and Implications | 第79-85页 |
| ·General findings | 第79页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications for language learning and teaching | 第79-82页 |
| ·Limitations of the present research | 第82-83页 |
| ·Suggestions for future research | 第83-85页 |
| References | 第85-92页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第92页 |
