| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4-13页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第13-17页 |
| Chapter 2 Survey of Research on Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition | 第17-28页 |
| ·Research domain | 第17-18页 |
| ·Research on second language vocabulary acquisition | 第18-20页 |
| ·Research on incidental vocabulary acquisition | 第20-23页 |
| ·Research on factors affecting incidental vocabulary acquisition | 第23-25页 |
| ·Issues to be further explored | 第25-28页 |
| Chapter 3 Methodology of the Study | 第28-36页 |
| ·An overview of the study | 第28-30页 |
| ·Targets of the study | 第28页 |
| ·General design of the study | 第28-30页 |
| ·Method of the present study | 第30-36页 |
| ·Subjects | 第30-31页 |
| ·Instruments | 第31-33页 |
| ·Reading comprehension test | 第31页 |
| ·Reading material | 第31-32页 |
| ·Target words and vocabulary test | 第32-33页 |
| ·Procedures | 第33-34页 |
| ·Scoring | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter 4 Results | 第36-46页 |
| ·Results of the reading comprehension test | 第36-37页 |
| ·Results of the incidental vocabulary acquisition | 第37-42页 |
| ·Results of the retention of the incidentally acquired words | 第42-46页 |
| Chapter 5 Discussion and Insights into Language Teaching and Learning | 第46-54页 |
| ·Reading and incidental vocabulary acquisition | 第46-47页 |
| ·Effect of the different reading purposes on incidental vocabulary acquisition in L2 reading | 第47-48页 |
| ·Effect of the different reading purposes on incidental vocabulary acquisition of the higher ability readers and the lower ability ones | 第48-49页 |
| ·Effect of the different reading purposes on the word retention | 第49-51页 |
| ·Implications for language teaching and learning | 第51-54页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第54-57页 |
| Notes | 第57-58页 |
| Bibliography | 第58-66页 |
| Appendices | 第66-84页 |
| Appendix 1: First reading purpose | 第66-68页 |
| Appendix 2: Second reading purpose | 第68-71页 |
| Appendix 3: Questionnaire | 第71-72页 |
| Appendix 4: Vocabulary test | 第72-74页 |
| Appendix 5: Vocabulary test for word retention | 第74-76页 |
| Appendix 6: Reading Comprehension test | 第76-84页 |
