DECLARATION
声明
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABSTRACT
摘要
CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES
LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
Chapter Ⅰ Introduction
1.1 Background of the study
1.2 Significance of the study
1.3 Outline of the Thesis
Chapter Ⅱ Literature Review
2.1 Mental lexicon
2.1.1 Notion of mental lexicon
2.1.2 Organization of mental lexicon
2.1.3 Lexical Access to Mental Lexicon
2.2 Lexical development of second language
2.3 Research methods of mental lexicon
2.3.1 Word Association Test
2.3.2 The Depth of Individual Word Knowledge Test
2.4 Empirical Studies of the Mental Lexicon in China
2.5 Problems need to be solved
Chapter Ⅲ Research Design
3.1 Research Questions
3.2 Subjects
3.3 Instruments
3.3.1 Free word association test
3.3.2 The Depth of Individual Word Knowledge Test
3.4 Data collection
3.5 Data analysis
3.5.1 Classification of the response types
3.5.2 Quantitative analysis of data
3.6 Summary
Chapter Ⅳ Results and Discussion
4.1 The overall pattern of response types
4.1.1 Frequencies of the semantic response and non-semantic response in four groups
4.1.2 Differences in semantic and non-semantic responses in four groups
4.2 DIWK effects on the response types
4.2.1 Proportion of response types that elicited a DIWK score of 5
4.2.2 Proportion of response types that elicited a DIWK score of 4
4.2.3 Proportion of response types that elicited a DIWK score of 3
4.2.4 Proportion of response types that elicited a DIWK score of 2 and 1
4.3 Word type effects on the response types
4.3.1 Word class
4.3.2 Word concreteness
4.3.3 Word frequency
4.4 Reasons for the lack of semantic responses in L2 mental lexicon
4.4.1 Inaccurate understanding of word meaning
4.4.2 Lack of semantic comprehension of mental lexicon
4.4.3 Neglect of the role of context
4.4.4 Differences between Chinese and Western culture
4.5 Summary
Chapter Ⅴ Conclusion
5.1 Major findings of the present study
5.2 Implications of this study
5.2.1 Implication for English teaching
5.2.2 Implication for English learning
5.3 Limitation of this study
5.4 Summary
REFERENCES
APPENDIX Ⅰ Stimulus Word List
APPENDIX Ⅱ Sample test of DIWK
APPENDIX Ⅲ 攻读硕士学位期间发表的科研论文及成果