| Preface | 第6-11页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第11-12页 |
| Abstract in English | 第12页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第13-22页 |
| 1.1 Background | 第13-17页 |
| 1.2 The Problem Statement | 第17-18页 |
| 1.3 Rational and Significance | 第18-20页 |
| 1.4 Definition of Terms | 第20-22页 |
| 2 Review of Related Literature | 第22-40页 |
| 2.1 An Educational-Psychological Conceptualization of Interest | 第22-27页 |
| 2.2 A Comparison between Interest, Motivation and Affect in Education | 第27-34页 |
| 2.3 The Effect of Interest upon Learning and Academic Achievement | 第34-35页 |
| 2.4 Teachers' Influence upon Students' Learning | 第35-40页 |
| 3 Research Methods | 第40-50页 |
| 3.1 The Research Context | 第40页 |
| 3.2 Population | 第40-41页 |
| 3.3 Sampling | 第41-42页 |
| 3.4 Instruments Used to Collect Data | 第42-47页 |
| 3.5 Procedure | 第47-50页 |
| 4 Data Analysis | 第50-76页 |
| 4.1 Introduction | 第50页 |
| 4.2 Methods of Processing and Analyzing the Data | 第50-54页 |
| 4.2.1 Qualitative Data Collected from Questionnaire Section II | 第50-53页 |
| 4.2.2 Quantitative Data Collected from Questionnaire Section III | 第53-54页 |
| 4.2.3 Qualitative Data Collected from Follow-up Interviews | 第54页 |
| 4.3 Findings on Research Question 1 | 第54-62页 |
| 4.3.1 Findings on Student Perception | 第54-57页 |
| 4.3.2 Findings on Teacher Perception | 第57-60页 |
| 4.3.3 A Match Comparison between Findings of Student and Teacher Perceptions | 第60-62页 |
| 4.4 Findings on Research Question 2 | 第62-67页 |
| 4.4.1 Findings on Student Perception | 第62-64页 |
| 4.4.2 Findings on Teacher Perception | 第64-66页 |
| 4.4.3 A Match Comparison between Findings of Student and Teacher Perceptions | 第66-67页 |
| 4.5 Synthesis of Findings on Research Question 1 and Question 2 | 第67-70页 |
| 4.6 Discussion | 第70-76页 |
| 5 Conclusions and Recommendations | 第76-81页 |
| 5.1 Summary of the Findings | 第76-79页 |
| 5.1.1 Summary of Findings on Research Question 1 | 第76-77页 |
| 5.1.2 Summary of Findings on Research Question 2 | 第77-78页 |
| 5.1.3 Synthesized Summary of Findings on Research Question 1 and Question 2 | 第78-79页 |
| 5.2 Limitations of the Study | 第79-80页 |
| 5.3 Suggestions for Further Study | 第80-81页 |
| Bibliography | 第81-86页 |
| Appendix 1 | 第86-88页 |
| Appendix 2 | 第88-90页 |
| Appendix 3 | 第90-92页 |
| Appendix 4 | 第92-93页 |
