| 中文摘要 | 第1-3页 |
| Abstract | 第3-4页 |
| 中文文摘 | 第4-6页 |
| Synopsis | 第6-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第10-13页 |
| Chapter Two A Review of the Studies on Listening Comprehension | 第13-21页 |
| ·The Definition of Listening Comprehension | 第13-14页 |
| ·Three Models of Listening Processing | 第14-16页 |
| ·Bottom-up Processing | 第14页 |
| ·Top-down Processing | 第14-15页 |
| ·Interactive Processing | 第15-16页 |
| ·Characteristics of Listening Process | 第16-17页 |
| ·Micro Skills of Listening Comprehension | 第17-18页 |
| ·Reasons for Listening Difficulty | 第18-19页 |
| ·Principles for Designing Listening Activities | 第19页 |
| ·Criteria for Evaluating Classroom Activities | 第19-20页 |
| ·Summary | 第20-21页 |
| Chapter Three A Review of the Studies on the Task-based Approach | 第21-31页 |
| ·Definition of Task | 第21-22页 |
| ·Characteristics of Task | 第22-23页 |
| ·Skehan's Task Characteristics | 第22-23页 |
| ·Littlewood's Task Characteristics | 第23页 |
| ·The Linguistics' Task Characteristics | 第23页 |
| ·Task Types | 第23-24页 |
| ·Task-based Approach | 第24-25页 |
| ·Rationale for the Task-based Approach | 第25-29页 |
| ·The Social Constructivist Theory | 第25-26页 |
| ·The Comprehensible Input Hypothesis | 第26-27页 |
| ·The Second Language Acquisition | 第27页 |
| ·The Interaction Hypothesis | 第27-28页 |
| ·The Output Hypothesis and Task-based Listening | 第28-29页 |
| ·The Zone of Proximal Development(ZPD) | 第29页 |
| ·Summary | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter Four The Application of the Task-based Approach to the Instruction of English Listening | 第31-51页 |
| ·The Problems of Current English Listening Teaching | 第31-33页 |
| ·The Problems of Teaching Methods | 第31页 |
| ·The Problems of Listening Materials | 第31-32页 |
| ·The Problems of Classroom Teaching Models | 第32-33页 |
| ·Purposes of Using the Task-based Approach | 第33-34页 |
| ·Models for English Listening Teaching | 第34-44页 |
| ·Willis' Model for Task-based Instruction | 第34-35页 |
| ·Underwood's Listening Teaching Model | 第35页 |
| ·Task-based Listening Teaching Model | 第35-44页 |
| ·Principles for Designing Listening Tasks | 第44-47页 |
| ·Willis' Principles | 第44页 |
| ·Skehan's Principles | 第44-45页 |
| ·The Author's Principles | 第45-47页 |
| ·Strategies for Completing Listening Tasks | 第47-48页 |
| ·Oxford's Strategies for Listening | 第47-48页 |
| ·Vandergrift and Rost's Strategies for Listening | 第48页 |
| ·Roles of Teachers in a Task-based Listening Class | 第48-50页 |
| ·Summary | 第50-51页 |
| Chapter Five An Empirical Study | 第51-57页 |
| ·Purpose of the Experiment | 第51页 |
| ·Implementation of the Experiment | 第51-52页 |
| ·Subjects of the Experiment | 第51页 |
| ·Duration of the Experiment | 第51页 |
| ·Teaching Materials | 第51-52页 |
| ·Teaching Methods | 第52页 |
| ·Testing Materials | 第52页 |
| ·Collection and analysis of data | 第52-53页 |
| ·Pre-test Data | 第52-53页 |
| ·Post-test Data | 第53页 |
| ·A Comparison of the Pre-test Data and the Post-test Data | 第53页 |
| ·A Sample of Listening Instruction | 第53-56页 |
| ·Summary | 第56-57页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第57-59页 |
| References | 第59-62页 |
| Appendices | 第62-73页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第73页 |
