| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract | 第6-11页 |
| Introduction | 第11-17页 |
| ·Significance of the Research | 第11-12页 |
| ·Research Objectives | 第12-13页 |
| ·Approaches of the Research | 第13-14页 |
| ·The Thesis Structure | 第14-17页 |
| Chapter One An Overview of Studies on Reading Comprehension | 第17-27页 |
| ·The Mainstream Reading Models in English Reading Teaching | 第17-24页 |
| ·The Bottom-up Model | 第18-19页 |
| ·The Top-down Model | 第19-20页 |
| ·The Interactive Model | 第20-22页 |
| ·The Schema-theoretic Model | 第22-24页 |
| ·Assessments of the Reading Models | 第24-27页 |
| Chapter Two Relevance Theory and Its Implications for Reading Comprehension | 第27-43页 |
| ·Relevance Theory—A New View on Communication | 第27-34页 |
| ·Communication as an Ostensive—inferential Process | 第27-29页 |
| ·The Principles of Relevance | 第29-30页 |
| ·Cognitive Effects | 第30-31页 |
| ·Relevance | 第31-32页 |
| ·Optimal Relevance | 第32-33页 |
| ·Relevance-theoretic Comprehension Procedure | 第33-34页 |
| ·Its Implications for Reading Comprehension | 第34-43页 |
| ·Implications for the Study of Word Meaning | 第34-37页 |
| ·Implications for the Study of Figurative Utterances | 第37-40页 |
| ·Implications for the Analysis of Discourse Connectives | 第40-43页 |
| Chapter Three Experimental Applications of the Relevance Theory to Teaching Reading | 第43-69页 |
| ·Description of the Experimental Research | 第44-46页 |
| ·Purposes of the Experiment | 第44-45页 |
| ·Subjects of the Experiment | 第45页 |
| ·Instruments of the Experiment | 第45-46页 |
| ·Process of the Experiment | 第46页 |
| ·Applications of the Relevance-based Approach in Reading Teaching Experiment | 第46-58页 |
| ·Developing Students' Ability of Pragmatic Inference in Reading Teaching | 第47-50页 |
| ·Directing Teachers' Reading Strategies | 第50-54页 |
| ·Guiding Teachers to Appropriate Selection of Reading Materials for Students' Exercises | 第54-58页 |
| ·The Constructive Role of Relevance Theory in Different Stages in Reading Teaching | 第58-63页 |
| ·The Pre-reading Stage | 第59-61页 |
| ·The While- reading Stage | 第61-62页 |
| ·The Post-reading Stage | 第62-63页 |
| ·An Example of a Relevance-based Reading Teaching Approach | 第63-69页 |
| Chapter Four Discussion of the Results of the Teaching Experiment | 第69-79页 |
| ·Data Collecting | 第69-70页 |
| ·Data Analyses | 第70-75页 |
| ·Analysis of the Test Before the Experiment | 第70-71页 |
| ·Analysis of the Tests During the Experiment | 第71-73页 |
| ·Analysis of the Test After the Experiment | 第73-74页 |
| ·Analysis of the Questionnaire | 第74-75页 |
| ·Interview Records | 第75页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications and Limitations of the Present Study | 第75-79页 |
| Conclusion | 第79-83页 |
| Bibliography | 第83-87页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ Raw Scores of the Control Class and the Experimental Class | 第87-91页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ A Prize for the Study | 第91-92页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ A Sample | 第92-97页 |
| Appendix Ⅵ A Questionnaire to the Experimental Students | 第97-99页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第99-101页 |
