| Abstract in Chinese | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract in English | 第8-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-13页 |
| Chapter 1 Literature Review | 第13-25页 |
| ·The study on listening teaching abroad | 第13-20页 |
| ·The nature of listening comprehension | 第13-14页 |
| ·The process of listening comprehension | 第14-16页 |
| ·The traditional teaching of listening | 第16-20页 |
| ·The study on listening teaching at home | 第20-25页 |
| ·Different perspectives of teaching English listening | 第20-22页 |
| ·The study on listening comprehension strategies | 第22-23页 |
| ·The study on English listening teaching in secondary school English class | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter 2 Theoretical Discussion | 第25-41页 |
| ·Indirect Speech Act Theory | 第25-36页 |
| ·The indirect speech act | 第25-27页 |
| ·The characteristics of indirect speech act | 第27-28页 |
| ·Classification of the indirect speech acts | 第28-31页 |
| ·Understanding the indirect speech acts | 第31-36页 |
| ·Listening comprehension | 第36-38页 |
| ·Indirect speech act theory and listening comprehension | 第38-41页 |
| Chapter 3 An Investigation of Current Situation of Listening Teaching in Chinese Secondary School English Class | 第41-57页 |
| ·Methodology | 第41-43页 |
| ·Research questions | 第41页 |
| ·Samples | 第41页 |
| ·Instrument | 第41页 |
| ·The design of the listening test and the questionnaire | 第41-42页 |
| ·Data collection | 第42页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第42页 |
| ·Validity and reliability | 第42页 |
| ·The limitation of the study | 第42-43页 |
| ·Results | 第43-50页 |
| ·The sample students’ability to identify the illocutionary forces in listening comprehension | 第43页 |
| ·The sample students’ideas of listening comprehension | 第43-46页 |
| ·The sample students’most difficult problem in listening comprehension | 第46-48页 |
| ·The sample students’inference developing | 第48-50页 |
| ·Analysis | 第50-55页 |
| ·The sample students’ability to identify the illocutionary forces in indirect speech act in listening comprehension | 第50-51页 |
| ·The sample students’ideas of listening comprehension | 第51-52页 |
| ·The sample students’most difficult problem in listening comprehension | 第52-53页 |
| ·The sample students’inference developing | 第53-55页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第55-57页 |
| Chapter 4 How to Teach Listening for Effective Comprehension | 第57-75页 |
| ·The pedagogical principles of teaching listening | 第57-59页 |
| ·Encouraging interaction between students and the teacher | 第57-58页 |
| ·Encouraging interaction and collaboration between students | 第58页 |
| ·Encouraging active listening techniques | 第58页 |
| ·Encouraging responding to the content of listening | 第58-59页 |
| ·Demanding different listening tasks at different listening stages | 第59页 |
| ·Some suggestions for teaching listening comprehension | 第59-74页 |
| ·To choose authentic listening material | 第59-60页 |
| ·To design various listening tasks | 第60-62页 |
| ·To organize effective listening activities | 第62-65页 |
| ·To make full use of multi-media in listening teaching | 第65-66页 |
| ·To make full use of English tones | 第66-68页 |
| ·To improve the students’inference strategy | 第68-74页 |
| ·Summary | 第74-75页 |
| Conclusion | 第75-77页 |
| Notes | 第77-80页 |
| Reference | 第80-84页 |
| Appendix | 第84-87页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文 | 第87-88页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第88页 |
