| Abstract | 第1-10页 |
| 摘要 | 第10-17页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第17-25页 |
| ·Rationale | 第17-21页 |
| ·Postgraduate English Teaching in China | 第17-19页 |
| ·Academic Vocabulary | 第19-21页 |
| ·Research Purposes, Research Questions and Research Design | 第21-23页 |
| ·Research Purposes and Research Questions | 第21-22页 |
| ·Research Design | 第22-23页 |
| ·Organization | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第25-81页 |
| ·Introduction | 第25页 |
| ·Academic Vocabulary | 第25-41页 |
| ·Division of the Words in Academic Texts | 第25-27页 |
| ·Nature of Academic Vocabulary | 第27-30页 |
| ·Studies on Academic Vocabulary | 第30-38页 |
| ·Academic Word Lists | 第30-32页 |
| ·Functions of Academic Vocabulary | 第32-36页 |
| ·Investigations into L2 Learners’ Academic Vocabulary Knowledge | 第36-38页 |
| ·Importance of Academic Vocabulary | 第38-41页 |
| ·Theories Concerning Vocabulary Knowledge | 第41-53页 |
| ·Dimensional Approach | 第41-47页 |
| ·Continuum-oriented Approach | 第47-49页 |
| ·Representation-oriented Approach | 第49-50页 |
| ·Lexicon-centered Approach | 第50-53页 |
| ·Vocabulary Knowledge Measurement | 第53-68页 |
| ·Distinction between Breadth and Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge | 第54页 |
| ·Distinction between Receptive and Productive Vocabulary Knowledge | 第54-57页 |
| ·Measurement of Breadth of Vocabulary Knowledge | 第57-64页 |
| ·Methodological Issue | 第58-60页 |
| ·Measurement | 第60-64页 |
| ·Measurement of Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge | 第64-68页 |
| ·Learner Corpora and Exploration of L2 Learners’Language | 第68页 |
| ·Studies on L2 Vocabulary Knowledge | 第68-79页 |
| ·Studies on Breadth of L2 Vocabulary Knowledge | 第68-77页 |
| ·Threshold Vocabulary | 第69-71页 |
| ·L2 Learners’Vocabulary Need | 第71-74页 |
| ·Relationships between Productive and Receptive Vocabulary Size | 第74-77页 |
| ·Studies on Depth of L2 Vocabulary Knowledge | 第77-79页 |
| ·Conclusions | 第79-81页 |
| Chapter 3 Conceptual Framework of the Present Study | 第81-97页 |
| ·Introduction | 第81页 |
| ·Academic Words | 第81-84页 |
| ·Tentative Conceptual Framework of Vocabulary Knowledge | 第84-89页 |
| ·Breadth of Receptive and Productive Academic Vocabulary Knowledge | 第85-86页 |
| ·Depth of Receptive and Productive Academic Vocabulary Knowledge | 第86-89页 |
| ·Methodological Issues | 第89-93页 |
| ·Measurement of Receptive Breadth | 第90页 |
| ·Measurement of Productive Breadth | 第90-92页 |
| ·Measurement of Receptive Depth | 第92页 |
| ·Method for Exploring Productive Depth | 第92-93页 |
| ·Specific Research Questions | 第93-95页 |
| ·Features of Research Design | 第95-96页 |
| ·Conclusions | 第96-97页 |
| Chapter 4 Research Design and Its Implementation | 第97-111页 |
| ·Introduction | 第97页 |
| ·Collecting Experimental Data | 第97-104页 |
| ·Participants | 第97-98页 |
| ·Research Instruments | 第98-102页 |
| ·Procedures | 第102-103页 |
| ·Scoring | 第103-104页 |
| ·Collecting Corpus Data | 第104-110页 |
| ·Criteria | 第105-109页 |
| ·Representativeness and Balance | 第105-108页 |
| ·Size | 第108-109页 |
| ·Procedures | 第109-110页 |
| ·Composition | 第110页 |
| ·Conclusions | 第110-111页 |
| Chapter 5 Breadth of Academic Vocabulary Knowledge | 第111-143页 |
| ·Introduction | 第111页 |
| ·Estimates of Receptive Vocabulary Size | 第111-122页 |
| ·Vocabulary Needed for Reading Academic Texts | 第112-114页 |
| ·Interpretation of the VLT | 第114-115页 |
| ·Receptive Academic Vocabulary Size and Vocabulary Size at Other Word Levels | 第115-122页 |
| ·General Description | 第115-117页 |
| ·Vocabulary Size of the L-group | 第117-118页 |
| ·Vocabulary Size of the H-group | 第118-119页 |
| ·Comparison of Vocabulary Size between Two Groups | 第119-122页 |
| ·Productive Academic Vocabulary Size and Vocabulary Size at Other Word Levels | 第122-128页 |
| ·General Description | 第122-124页 |
| ·Productive Vocabulary of the L-group | 第124-125页 |
| ·Productive Vocabulary Size of the H-group | 第125-126页 |
| ·Comparison of Productive Vocabulary Size between Two Groups | 第126-128页 |
| ·Relationship between Receptive and Productive Academic Vocabulary | 第128-131页 |
| ·Discussion | 第131-141页 |
| ·Receptive Academic Vocabulary Size | 第131-135页 |
| ·Productive Academic Vocabulary Size | 第135-138页 |
| ·Relationship between Receptive and Productive Academic Vocabulary | 第138-141页 |
| ·Conclusions | 第141-143页 |
| Chapter 6 Depth of Academic Vocabulary Knowledge | 第143-185页 |
| ·Introduction | 第143-144页 |
| ·Depth of Academic Vocabulary: a Receptive Perspective | 第144-153页 |
| ·General Description | 第144-147页 |
| ·Relationships among Receptive Size, Productive Size and Depth | 第147-148页 |
| ·Discussion | 第148-153页 |
| ·Frontier Knowledge of Academic Vocabulary | 第148-149页 |
| ·Relationship between Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic | 第149-152页 |
| ·Relationships among Receptive Vocabulary Size, Productive Vocabulary Size and Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge | 第152-153页 |
| ·Depth of Academic Vocabulary Knowledge: a Productive Perspective | 第153-183页 |
| ·Depth of the Knowledge of Word Meaning | 第155-166页 |
| ·Meanings of the Word Function | 第155-162页 |
| ·Meanings of the Word Maintain | 第162-166页 |
| ·Depth of the Knowledge of Collocation | 第166-183页 |
| ·Collocational Behavior of the Node Research | 第168-176页 |
| ·Collocational Behavior of the Node Indicate | 第176-183页 |
| ·Conclusions | 第183-185页 |
| Chapter 7 Conclusions | 第185-197页 |
| ·Introduction | 第185页 |
| ·Summary of the Findings | 第185-187页 |
| ·Implications | 第187-195页 |
| ·Implications for L2 Vocabulary Acquisition Research | 第187-189页 |
| ·Implications for Teaching Academic Vocabulary | 第189-194页 |
| ·Four Strands of Balanced Language Course | 第189-191页 |
| ·Raising the Awareness of Academic Word Potential | 第191-193页 |
| ·Transition from Knowledge-telling to Knowledge-transformi | 第193-194页 |
| ·Implications for Methodology | 第194-195页 |
| ·Limitations and Recommendations | 第195-197页 |
| ·Limitations | 第195-196页 |
| ·Recommendations | 第196-197页 |
| References | 第197-217页 |
| Appendices | 第217-243页 |
| List of Figures | 第243-246页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第246-247页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第247页 |
