| Abstract in English | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第8-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter One A Survey of Vocabulary Teaching and the Research in Teaching English as a Foreign Language in both the West and China | 第12-22页 |
| ·Vocabulary Teaching and the Research in TEFL in the West | 第12-19页 |
| ·Vocabulary Teaching and the Research under Different Teaching Methods | 第12-15页 |
| ·Vocabulary Teaching and the Research from 1970 to 1980 | 第15页 |
| ·Vocabulary Teaching and the Research since the 19805 | 第15-19页 |
| ·Vocabulary Teaching and the Research in TEFL in China | 第19-22页 |
| Chapter Two A theoretical Consideration of Vocabulary Teaching and the Lexical Approach | 第22-40页 |
| ·Vocabulary and Lexis | 第22-26页 |
| ·Vocabulary | 第22页 |
| ·Lexis | 第22-26页 |
| ·Definition | 第22-23页 |
| ·Categories of Lexis | 第23-26页 |
| ·What does it mean to ‘know a word’? | 第26-29页 |
| ·The Lexical Approach | 第29-40页 |
| ·Change of Teachers’Mind-set | 第29-31页 |
| ·Some Ideas about Language from the Perspective of the Lexical Approach.. | 第31-33页 |
| ·Spectrum Idea of language | 第31-32页 |
| ·Non-linear Idea of Language | 第32-33页 |
| ·Nature of Lexis | 第33-35页 |
| ·Aspects of Learning | 第35-40页 |
| ·Characteristics of Learning | 第35-36页 |
| ·Vocabulary Learning Strategies | 第36-40页 |
| Chapter Three An Investigation of the Current Situation of Vocabulary Teaching in Senior Middle Schools of China | 第40-49页 |
| ·Methodology | 第40-43页 |
| ·The Research Questions | 第40页 |
| ·Subjects | 第40-41页 |
| ·Instrument | 第41页 |
| ·The Design of the Questionnaire | 第41页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第41-42页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第42页 |
| ·Reliability and Validity | 第42页 |
| ·Limitation | 第42-43页 |
| ·The Results of the Survey | 第43-45页 |
| ·The Teachers’View on the Importance of Vocabulary Teaching | 第43页 |
| ·The Teachers’View on Vocabulary Teaching | 第43-44页 |
| ·The Teachers’View on Vocabulary Teaching Strategies | 第44-45页 |
| ·Discussion | 第45-47页 |
| ·The Teachers’View on the Importance of Vocabulary Teaching | 第45页 |
| ·The Teachers’View on Vocabulary Teaching | 第45-46页 |
| ·The Teachers’View on Vocabulary Teaching Strategies | 第46-47页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第47-49页 |
| Chapter Four Teaching Vocabulary in Senior Middle Schools of China–A Perspective of the Lexical Approach | 第49-63页 |
| ·Methodological Principles for the Teacher | 第49-50页 |
| ·Vocabulary Teaching Based on the Lexical Approach | 第50-56页 |
| ·Multi-dimensional Vocabulary Teaching | 第50-55页 |
| ·Collocation | 第50-53页 |
| ·Chunks | 第53-55页 |
| ·Thematically-linked Vocabulary Teaching | 第55-56页 |
| ·Improvements on the Vocabulary Learning Strategies | 第56-63页 |
| ·Noticing | 第57-58页 |
| ·Notebooks | 第58-60页 |
| ·Recycling | 第60-61页 |
| ·The Use of the Dictionary | 第61-63页 |
| Conclusion | 第63-65页 |
| Appendix I | 第65-67页 |
| Appendix II | 第67-69页 |
| Bibliography | 第69-74页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第74-75页 |
| 攻读教育硕士学位期间发表论文 | 第75页 |