| Acknowledgements | 第5-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-15页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第15-19页 |
| 1.1 Needs for the Study | 第15-17页 |
| 1.2 General Description of the Study | 第17页 |
| 1.3 Overall Structure of the Thesis | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第19-47页 |
| 2.1 Lexical Chunks | 第19-27页 |
| 2.1.1 Definitions of Lexical Chunks | 第19-21页 |
| 2.1.2 Classification of Lexical Chunks | 第21-25页 |
| 2.1.3 Functions of Lexical Chunks | 第25-27页 |
| 2.2 The Lexical Approach | 第27-38页 |
| 2.2.1 Definition of the Lexical Approach | 第27-28页 |
| 2.2.2 Theoretical basis of the Lexical Approach | 第28-32页 |
| 2.2.3 Lexical Approaches | 第32-33页 |
| 2.2.4 Methodological Principles and Implications of the Lexical Approach | 第33-38页 |
| 2.3 Studies of Teaching Lexical Chunks at Home and Abroad | 第38-47页 |
| 2.3.1 Studies of Teaching Lexical Chunks Abroad | 第38-40页 |
| 2.3.2 Studies of Teaching Lexical Chunks at Home | 第40-47页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第47-53页 |
| 3.1 Research Questions | 第47-48页 |
| 3.2 Research Design | 第48-52页 |
| 3.2.1 Research Subject | 第48-49页 |
| 3.2.2 Data Collection Instruments | 第49-52页 |
| 3.3 Data Analysis Procedures | 第52-53页 |
| Chapter Four Research Results and Discussion | 第53-75页 |
| 4.1 Descriptive Statistics | 第53-58页 |
| 4.1.1 The most important types of lexical chunks | 第53-55页 |
| 4.1.2 Acquisition rules for different lexical chunks | 第55-58页 |
| 4.2 Classroom Observation | 第58-67页 |
| 4.2.1 Time spent on collocations, expressions, listening, teacher’s oral outputand students’ oral output | 第59-60页 |
| 4.2.2 The comments, exercises and activities the teacher adopts to trainstudents’ ability of noticing | 第60-62页 |
| 4.2.3. Strategies the teacher adopts to train students’ ability of pedagogicalchunking | 第62-63页 |
| 4.2.4 The teacher’s reaction to students’ mistakes | 第63-64页 |
| 4.2.5 Students’ preparation before reading the passage | 第64-65页 |
| 4.2.6 Teaching words with little information content, and fixed lexical chunks | 第65-66页 |
| 4.2.7 Summary of the findings from classroom observation | 第66-67页 |
| 4.3 Interview | 第67-75页 |
| 4.3.1 Teacher’s views on lexis and grammar | 第68-69页 |
| 4.3.2 Teacher’s perceptions towards exercises | 第69-70页 |
| 4.3.3 Teacher’s views on input and output | 第70-72页 |
| 4.3.4 Approaches to correct students’ mistakes | 第72页 |
| 4.3.5 Preparations for using textbooks | 第72-75页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第75-83页 |
| 5.1 Major Findings | 第75-77页 |
| 5.1.1 Designing rules and key points | 第75-76页 |
| 5.1.2 Problems in teaching lexical chunks | 第76-77页 |
| 5.1.3 Reasons for problems in teaching lexical chunks | 第77页 |
| 5.2 Implications of the study | 第77-80页 |
| 5.2.1 Implications for textbook writers | 第78页 |
| 5.2.2 Implications for school administrators | 第78-79页 |
| 5.2.3 Implications for teachers | 第79-80页 |
| 5.3 Limitations of the study | 第80-81页 |
| 5.4 Suggestions for future study | 第81-82页 |
| 5.5 Conclusion | 第82-83页 |
| References | 第83-87页 |
| Appendix I Transcript of Classroom Observation | 第87-99页 |
| Appendix II Transcript for Teachers’ Interview | 第99-102页 |
| About the Author | 第102页 |
