| Abstract | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-9页 |
| 1 Introduction | 第9-12页 |
| ·Research Background | 第9-10页 |
| ·Significance of the Present Study | 第10-11页 |
| ·Methodology of the Present Study | 第11页 |
| ·Outline of the Paper | 第11-12页 |
| 2 Theoretical Basis of the Study | 第12-19页 |
| ·Definitions of Lexical Chunks | 第12-14页 |
| ·Historical Classifications of Lexical Chunks | 第14-16页 |
| ·Functions of Lexical Chunks | 第16-19页 |
| ·The Function of Saving Efforts in Processing | 第16-17页 |
| ·Achieving Interactional Functions | 第17-19页 |
| 3 Empirical Research and Data Analyses | 第19-26页 |
| ·Hypothesis | 第19页 |
| ·Subject | 第19-20页 |
| ·The Process of the Empirical Research | 第20-21页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第21-26页 |
| ·Tests and Scoring | 第21页 |
| ·Data Analyses | 第21-25页 |
| ·A Summary of the Data Statistics | 第25-26页 |
| 4 Analyses of Experiment Results | 第26-36页 |
| ·Lexical Chunk Ability in Vocabulary Ability | 第26-29页 |
| ·Breadth and Depth of Vocabulary Ability | 第26-28页 |
| ·Known and Unknown Words, Active and Passive Words | 第28-29页 |
| ·The Evaluation Standard of Chinese High School in English Education | 第29-33页 |
| ·The Aim of Chinese High School Students for Learning English | 第29-30页 |
| ·Vocabulary knowledge and Reading Comprehension | 第30-33页 |
| ·Instrumentalist Hypothesis | 第30-31页 |
| ·General Aptitude Hypothesis | 第31-32页 |
| ·General Knowledge Hypothesis | 第32-33页 |
| ·Lexical Chunk Ability and the Abilities in Some Other Testing Items | 第33-36页 |
| ·Lexical Chunk Ability and Listening Comprehension Ability | 第33-34页 |
| ·Lexical Chunk Ability and Cloze Test Ability | 第34页 |
| ·Lexical Chunk Ability and Composition | 第34-36页 |
| 5 Conclusion | 第36-40页 |
| ·Findings | 第36-38页 |
| ·Lexical Chunks Approach and Language Proficiency AS A Whole | 第36-37页 |
| ·Conditions for Improving Lexical chunk ability | 第37页 |
| ·The Curriculum of Chinese High School and Lexical Chunks | 第37页 |
| ·Breadth Knowledge and Lexical Chunk Ability | 第37-38页 |
| ·Limitaions and Suggestions | 第38-40页 |
| ·limitations of the Empirical Research | 第38页 |
| ·Suggestions for Future Research | 第38-40页 |
| Acknowlegements | 第40-41页 |
| Bibliography | 第41-44页 |
| Appendix | 第44-64页 |
