| ABSTRACT | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter One: Introduction | 第10-16页 |
| ·Research Background | 第10-11页 |
| ·Significance and purpose of the study | 第11-13页 |
| ·Theoretical significance | 第11-12页 |
| ·Pedagogical significance | 第12页 |
| ·The purpose of the study | 第12-13页 |
| ·The outline of the thesis | 第13-16页 |
| Chapter Two: Literature Review | 第16-32页 |
| ·Language transfer | 第16-18页 |
| ·A brief introduction of language transfer | 第16-17页 |
| ·Semantic transfer in language acquisition | 第17-18页 |
| ·Conceptual transfer | 第18-23页 |
| ·The proposition of conceptual transfer | 第18-20页 |
| ·Conceptual transfer in language acquisition | 第20-21页 |
| ·Conceptual transfer in the domain of motion | 第21-23页 |
| ·Previous studies on motion events expression at home and abroad | 第23-27页 |
| ·Previous studies on Chinese motion events expressions | 第23-25页 |
| ·Previous studies on the acquisition of motion events expressions | 第25-27页 |
| ·Co-speech gestures in the expression of motion events | 第27-32页 |
| ·The definition and classification of co-speech gestures | 第27页 |
| ·The relationship between co-speech gestures and motion events | 第27-28页 |
| ·Previous studies on co-speech gestures of motion events | 第28-32页 |
| Chapter Three: Theoretical Framework | 第32-42页 |
| ·Talmy’s lexicalization patterns of motion events across different languages | 第32-35页 |
| ·A general introduction of language expressions of motion events in Chineseand English | 第35-42页 |
| ·The characteristics of motion events expression in Chinese | 第35-37页 |
| ·The characteristics of motion events expression in English | 第37-39页 |
| ·The contrast and comparison between Chinese and English in theexpression of motion events | 第39-42页 |
| Chapter Four: Research Methodology | 第42-48页 |
| ·Research design | 第42页 |
| ·Study one: the data collection in corpora | 第42-44页 |
| ·Corpora used in the study | 第42-43页 |
| ·The selection of motion verbs | 第43-44页 |
| ·Instruments | 第44页 |
| ·Study two: a story-retelling task | 第44-48页 |
| ·A brief introduction of the cartoon material | 第44-45页 |
| ·The procedure of the story-retelling task | 第45-46页 |
| ·Co-speech gesture coding in speech | 第46-48页 |
| Chapter Five: Results and Analysis | 第48-74页 |
| ·Results and discussion of corpus retrieval | 第48-60页 |
| ·The acquisition of path verbs in motion events | 第48-53页 |
| ·The acquisition of manner verbs in motion events | 第53-56页 |
| ·The overuse of path satellites and prepositions | 第56-58页 |
| ·The expression of manner information for Chinese learners | 第58-60页 |
| ·Results and discussion of the story-retelling task | 第60-68页 |
| ·The data analysis of co-speech gestures in motion events | 第61-64页 |
| ·The data analysis of speech in motion events narration | 第64-66页 |
| ·The correlation between co-speech gestures and the speech in motionevents narration | 第66-68页 |
| ·Conceptual transfer in the acquisition of English motion events expressionsfor Chinese learners | 第68-74页 |
| ·Conceptual transfer in the acquisition of English path-of-motionexpressions | 第68-71页 |
| ·Conceptual transfer in the acquisition of English manner-of-motionexpressions | 第71-73页 |
| ·Conceptual transfer and gesture changes in the acquisition of motionevents expressions | 第73-74页 |
| Chapter Six: Conclusion | 第74-78页 |
| ·Major Findings of the study | 第74-75页 |
| ·Theoretical and pedagogical implications of the study | 第75-76页 |
| ·The limitations of the study | 第76-77页 |
| ·Suggestions for further study | 第77-78页 |
| BIBLIOGRAGHY | 第78-86页 |
| APPENDIX | 第86-88页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第88-90页 |
| PUBLISHED PAPERS | 第90页 |
