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Acknowledgements
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 General description of the study
1.2 Motivations for the study
1.3 Significance of the study
1.4 Overall structure of the thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 Discussion of some key terms in the study
2.1.1 TEM-8
2.1.2 Reading Comprehension Test (RCT)
2.1.3 Stem Type
2.1.4 Test Performance
2.2 Related theories on reading comprehension
2.2.1 Bottom-up Model
2.2.2 Top-down Model
2.2.3 Interactive Model
2.2.4 Schemata Theory
2.3 Related studies on stem types in RCT
2.3.1 Previous research on RCT
2.3.2 Formats of RCT in TEM-8
2.3.3 Previous research on the stem types and the students' reading performance
2.4 Specification of research objectives
Chapter Three Methodology
3.1 Research objectives
3.2 Research design
3.2.1 Subjects
3.2.2 Instrument
3.2.3 Data collection
3.2.4 Data analysis
Chapter Four Results and Discussion
4.1 The distribution of stem types in the test papers
4.2 The relationships between stem types and the students' reading performance
4.2.1 Accuracy rate and difficulty of different stem types in each paper
4.2.2 The overall relationships between the stem types and reading performance
4.2.3 The annual relationships between the stem types and the students' reading performance
4.3 Summary
Chapter Five Conclusion
5.1 Major findings
5.2 Implications
5.3 Limitations of this study
5.4 Suggestions for future research
References
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