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Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Background of the Research
1.2 Objectives and Research Questions
1.3 Organization of the thesis
Chapter Two Theoretical Background
2.1 Cohesion and Coherence
2.1.1 Cohesion and Cohesive Devices
2.1.2 Coherence
2.1.3 The Relationship between Cohesion and Coherence
2.1.4 Reference and Personal Reference
2.2 Interlanguage Theory and Its Development
2.3 Corpus linguistics
2.3.1 Corpus
2.3.2 Features and Approach of Corpus-based Research
2.4 Relevant Researches on Personal Reference
2.5 Summary
Chapter Three Methodology
3.1 Corpus Used
3.1.1 Chinese English Learner's Corpus
3.1.2 English-speaker Learner's Corpus
3.2 Data Collection
3.2.1 Letters from CLEC
3.2.2 Letters from Native-Speakers
3.3 Data Analysis
3.3.1 Personal Reference in Letters from CLEC
3.3.2 Personal Reference in Letters from Native Speakers
Chapter Four Results and discussion
4.1 Personal Reference from CLEC
4.2. Differences in Personal Pronouns from CLEC and BNC
4.3 Personal Reference and Coherence
Chapter Five Conclusion and Implication for FLT
5.1 Findings of the Study
5.2 Implication for Foreign Language Teaching
5.3 Limitation of the Study
5.4 Areas for Further Research
References
Appendix
Acknowledgements