| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| CONTENTS | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter One INTRODUCTION | 第10-13页 |
| ·Background of the Present Study | 第10-11页 |
| ·Significance and Purposes of the Study | 第11-12页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter Two LITERATURE REVIEW | 第13-27页 |
| ·Reading Comprehension | 第13-14页 |
| ·Conceptualization of reading comprehension | 第13页 |
| ·Reading comprehension level | 第13-14页 |
| ·Theories on Working Memory Capacity | 第14-18页 |
| ·Origin of working memory | 第14-15页 |
| ·Working memory models | 第15-17页 |
| ·Measure of Working Memory Capacity | 第17-18页 |
| ·Think-aloud | 第18-19页 |
| ·Theoretical foundation | 第19-23页 |
| ·Theories on Individual Difference in Working Memory Capacity | 第19-21页 |
| ·Theories on Relationship between Working Memory and Language Comprehension | 第21-23页 |
| ·Related studies | 第23-27页 |
| ·Studies on the effects of working memory on comprehension in L2 reading | 第23-25页 |
| ·Studies on the effects of think-aloud on comprehension in L2 reading | 第25-27页 |
| Chapter Three METHODOLOGY | 第27-33页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第27页 |
| ·Participants | 第27-28页 |
| ·Instruments | 第28-30页 |
| ·Reading span test | 第28-29页 |
| ·Training think-aloud process | 第29页 |
| ·Scores of CET 4 | 第29-30页 |
| ·English Reading Comprehension Test | 第30页 |
| ·Procedure | 第30-31页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第31-32页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第32-33页 |
| Chapter Four RESULTS and DISCUSSION | 第33-44页 |
| ·Effects of Working Memory capacity on reading comprehension | 第33-36页 |
| ·Descriptive statistics for reading span test | 第33-34页 |
| ·Reading comprehension test | 第34-35页 |
| ·The correlation between the working memory capacity and reading comprehension performance | 第35-36页 |
| ·Effects of Think-aloud on Reading Comprehension | 第36-39页 |
| ·Combined Effects of Working Memory Capacity and Think Aloud on Reading comprehension | 第39-41页 |
| ·Summary | 第41-44页 |
| Chapter Five CONCLUSIONS | 第44-47页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第44-45页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications | 第45页 |
| ·Limitation of This Study and Suggestions for Future Research | 第45-47页 |
| REFERENCES | 第47-52页 |
| APPENDICS | 第52-63页 |
