| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-10页 |
| ABSTRACT (CHINESE) | 第10-12页 |
| ABSTRACT (ENGLISH) | 第12-14页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第14-18页 |
| ·Background | 第14-16页 |
| ·Motivation and Questions of the Present Study | 第16-17页 |
| ·Overview of the Thesis | 第17-18页 |
| CHAPTER TWO THEORETICAL AND ANALYTICAL FRAMES | 第18-31页 |
| ·Theoretical frame for the use of self-questioning strategy | 第18-23页 |
| ·Schemata Theory | 第18-20页 |
| ·Defining Schemata | 第18页 |
| ·Schemata and Reading Comprehension | 第18-19页 |
| ·Self-questioning and the Activation of Schemata in Reading | 第19-20页 |
| ·Metacogintion | 第20-22页 |
| ·Defining Metacognition | 第20页 |
| ·The Role of Metacognition in Reading Process | 第20-21页 |
| ·Self-questioning as a Metacognitive Strategy | 第21-22页 |
| ·Active Processing | 第22-23页 |
| ·Defining Active Processing | 第22页 |
| ·Active Processing and Reading Comprehension | 第22-23页 |
| ·Self-questioning as an Activity of Active Processing | 第23页 |
| ·Analytical Frame for Questions and Comprehension | 第23-31页 |
| ·Levels of Reading Comprehension | 第23-25页 |
| ·Surface Representations | 第24页 |
| ·Textbase Representations | 第24-25页 |
| ·Situational Models | 第25页 |
| ·The Psychological Mechanism of Question Generation | 第25-26页 |
| ·Comprehension and Types of Questions: a Dialectical Relation | 第26-31页 |
| ·Questions Generated in Reading are Sensitive to Text Representations | 第26-29页 |
| ·Different Types of Question Stimulate Different Text Representations | 第29-31页 |
| CHAPTER THREE LITERATURE REVIEW | 第31-49页 |
| ·Review of Microgenetic Approaches | 第31-35页 |
| ·Three Major Scientific Research Traditions in SLA | 第31-33页 |
| ·Behaviorism and Its Research Methods | 第31-32页 |
| ·The Cognitive-Computational Tradition and Its Research Methods | 第32页 |
| ·The Dialogical Tradition and Its Research Methods | 第32-33页 |
| ·Defining Microgenetic Approaches | 第33页 |
| ·Traditional Approaches versus Microgenetic Approaches | 第33-34页 |
| ·Key characteristics of Microgenetic Approaches | 第34-35页 |
| ·Review of Reading Comprehension and Reading Strategies | 第35-44页 |
| ·Reading Viewed as a Cognitive Process | 第35页 |
| ·Reading Viewed as a Metacognitive Process | 第35-36页 |
| ·The Psycholinguistic Models of Reading Comprehension | 第36-43页 |
| ·Bottom-up Model of Reading Process | 第37-38页 |
| ·The Top-down Model of Reading Process | 第38-40页 |
| ·An Interactive Model of Reading Process | 第40-41页 |
| ·The Construction-integration Model | 第41-43页 |
| ·Reading strategies and EFL reading comprehension | 第43-44页 |
| ·Review of the Studies on Self-questioning | 第44-49页 |
| ·Defining Self-questioning | 第44-45页 |
| ·The Evolution of Self-questioning: a Historical Perspective | 第45-48页 |
| ·Effects and Methods of Self-questioning Instruction | 第48-49页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR METHODOLOGY | 第49-58页 |
| ·Aim of the Study | 第49页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第49-50页 |
| ·Subjects | 第50页 |
| ·Instruments | 第50-51页 |
| ·Procedures | 第51-57页 |
| ·Pretest | 第51-54页 |
| ·Training program | 第54-56页 |
| ·Consciousness Raising | 第54页 |
| ·Modeling | 第54-55页 |
| ·Practice and application of the strategy | 第55-56页 |
| ·Treatment for the Control Class | 第56-57页 |
| ·Posttest | 第57页 |
| ·Data Collection and Analysis | 第57-58页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 第58-73页 |
| ·Results | 第58-69页 |
| ·Research Question 1 | 第58-59页 |
| ·Research Question 2 | 第59-64页 |
| ·Research Question 3 | 第64-67页 |
| ·Research Question 4 | 第67-69页 |
| ·Discussion | 第69-73页 |
| CHAPTER SIX CONCLUSION | 第73-76页 |
| ·Main Findings of the Study | 第73页 |
| ·Pedagogicaland Research Implications | 第73-75页 |
| ·Limitations | 第75页 |
| ·Suggestions for Future Research | 第75-76页 |
| REFERENCES | 第76-82页 |
| APPENDICES | 第82-103页 |
| Appendix A: Generic Question Stems | 第82-83页 |
| Appendix B: Questioning Forms for the Students in the Experimental Class | 第83-84页 |
| Appendix C: Teaching Material for Demonstration Lesson | 第84-85页 |
| Appendix D: Scores of the Experimental and the Control Class in the Pretest | 第85-87页 |
| Appendix E: Repeated Measures ofthe Students' Comprehension | 第87-90页 |
| Appendix F: Repeated MeasuresoftheStudents'Questioning Ability | 第90-92页 |
| Appendix G: A Sample of the Pretest Papers | 第92-97页 |
| Appendix H: A Sample of the Posttest Paper | 第97-103页 |