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Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Need for the Present Study
1.1.1 Lack of awareness of lexical chunks in learners' oral production
1.1.2 Disagreement on the role of lexical chunks in adult learner language acquisition
1.1.3 Problems in language teaching approaches
1.2 Organization of the Thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 The Concepts of Items
2.1.1 Lexical chunks
2.1.2 Oral fluency
2.2 Teaching Approaches Applying Lexical Chunks
2.2.1 Lexical-phrase approach
2.2.2 Lexical approach
2.3 STUDIES ON LEXICAL CHUNKS IN DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
2.3.1 Corpus linguistics
2.3.2 Language acquisition
2.4 LACK OF STUDY ON THE ROLE OF LEXICAL CHUNKS IN IMPROVING ORAL FLUENCY
2.5 THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR THIS STUDY
2.5.1 Theory of input hypothesis
2.5.2 Chunking theory
2.5.3 Instance models
2.6 SUMMARY
CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH DESIGN
3.1 SUBJECTS
3.2 HYPOTHESIS
3.3 THE GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE EXPERIMENT
3.4 INSTRUCTIONAL TREATMENT TO THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP
3.4.1 The design of treatment
3.4.2 Learning and teaching activities
3.4.3 Teaching procedure
3.5 INSTRUCTIONAL TREATMENT TO THE CONTROL GROUP
3.6 DATA COLLECTION
3.6.1 Oral tests
3.6.2 Recordings of oral production
3.7 DATA ANALYSIS
CHAPTER FOUR RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
4.1 RESULTS FROM FLUENCY INDICES OF PRETEST
4.2 RESULTS FROM FLUENCY INDICES OF POSTTEST
CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION
5.1 SOME CONCLUSIONS
5.2 PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS
5.3 LIMITATIONS OF THIS STUDYAND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
REFERENCES
APPENDIX
