声明
摘要
Abstract
Contents
Tables
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Background
1.2 Significance of the research
1.3 Outline of the thesis
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Vocabulary knowledge
2.1.1 Componential view of the vocabulary knowledge
2.1.2 Continuum view of the vocabulary knowledge
2.1.3 Measuring vocabulary size
2.1.4 Measuring vocabulary depth
2.2 Vocabulary knowledge and language proficiency
2.2.1 Studies on the influence of language skills on words acquisition
2.2.2 Studies on the influence of vocabulary knowledge on language skills
2.3 Chinese as a second language
Chapter 3 Methodology
3.1 Research orientation and key research questions
3.2 Participants
3.3 Sampling
3.4 The design of the tests
3.4.1 Vocabulary size test
3.4.2 Vocabulary depth test
3.4.3 Reading comprehension test
3.4.4 Questionnaire
3.5 Procedures and data collection
3.5.1 Tests administration
3.5.2 Scoring
3.5.3 Data analysis
Chapter 4 Results and discussion
4.1 Pilot study
4.2 A normal distribution test of the tests’ results
4.3 Results
4.3.1 A description of the test results
4.3.2 Correlation between the vocabulary size and the vocabulary depth
4.3.3 Correlation between the vocabulary size and the reading comprehension ability
4.3.4 Correlation between the dimensions of the vocabulary depth and reading comprehension ability
4.4 Discussion
Conclusion
References
Appendix A 词汇量测试,词汇深度测试和阅读理解测试试卷
Appendix B 详细中文摘要
Acknowledgements