| Acknowledgements | 第4-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-18页 |
| 1.1 Derivational Morphology | 第11-12页 |
| 1.2 Difficulty in the Acquisition of Derivational Morphology | 第12-14页 |
| 1.3 Receptive and Productive Derivational Word Knowledge | 第14-16页 |
| 1.4 mplications for the Present Research | 第16页 |
| 1.5 The Current Research | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第18-50页 |
| 2.1 Morpheme | 第18-24页 |
| 2.1.1 Root, Base and Stem | 第18-21页 |
| 2.1.2 Different Types of Affixes | 第21-22页 |
| 2.1.3 Neutral and Nonneutral Suffixes | 第22-24页 |
| 2.2 A Series of Difficulty Levels of Affixes | 第24-26页 |
| 2.3 Word Family and Vocabulary Lists | 第26-28页 |
| 2.3.1 Word Family and Word Family Frequency | 第26-27页 |
| 2.3.2 Vocabulary Lists Based on Word Family | 第27-28页 |
| 2.4 Psychological Perspective of English Derivational Morphology | 第28-37页 |
| 2.4.1 The Morphological Processing Model of Complex Words | 第29-30页 |
| 2.4.2 The Processing Models of English Derived Words | 第30-31页 |
| 2.4.3 Factors Affecting the Acquisition of English Derivatives | 第31-37页 |
| 2.5 Studies on L2 Learners' Acquisition of Derivational Knowledge | 第37-50页 |
| 2.5.1 Studies under the Word Knowledge Framework VS Studies on the Acquisition ofEnglish Derivatives or Derivational Affixes | 第37-44页 |
| 2.5.2 Studies on the Receptive VS Productive Derivational Knowledge | 第44-46页 |
| 2.5.3 Testing on Derivational Knowledge in Isolation VS in Context | 第46页 |
| 2.5.4 The Growth of Derivational Knowledge | 第46-47页 |
| 2.5.5 Summary | 第47-50页 |
| Chapter 3 Research Methodology | 第50-64页 |
| 3.1 Participants | 第50-51页 |
| 3.2 Study Instrument | 第51-58页 |
| 3.2.1 Derivational Affixes | 第52-54页 |
| 3.2.2 Prompts and Target Words | 第54-56页 |
| 3.2.3 Contextualized Sentences | 第56-58页 |
| 3.3 Pilot Studies | 第58-61页 |
| 3.4 Procedure | 第61-62页 |
| 3.5 Scoring | 第62-63页 |
| 3.6 Data Analysis | 第63-64页 |
| Chapter 4 Results and Discussion | 第64-95页 |
| 4.1 The Effects of Frequency of Affix and Regularity of the Affix | 第64-73页 |
| 4.2 The Effect of Word Family Frequency | 第73-79页 |
| 4.3 The Effect of Learners' Proficiency Level | 第79-87页 |
| 4.4 Discussion | 第87-95页 |
| 4.4.1 The Acquisition Order of English Derivatives and Affixes | 第87-88页 |
| 4.4.2 The Growth of Productive Knowledge of Derivatives | 第88-91页 |
| 4.4.3 The Limited mastery of Productive Knowledge of Derivatives | 第91-95页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第95-99页 |
| 5.1 Summary of Major Findings | 第95-96页 |
| 5.2 Pedagogical Implications | 第96-97页 |
| 5.3 Limitations and Recommendations for Future Research | 第97-99页 |
| Appendix | 第99-101页 |
| References | 第101-106页 |
