摘要
Abstract
Contents
Introduction
1．Research Background
2．Obiectives of the Study
3．Organization of the Thesis
Chapter 1 Literature Review
1．1 Definition of Reading and Reading Comprehension
1．2 Reading Models
1．2．1 “Bottom-Up”Model
1．2．2 “Top-Down”Model
1．2．3 “Interactive”Model
1．4 Schema Theory
1．5 Schema Theory and Reading Difficulties
1．5．1 Language Schema and Reading Difficulties
1．5．2 Content Schema and Reading Difficulties
1．5．3 Formal Schema and Reading Difficulties
1．6 Research Situations Both at Home and Abroad
Chapter 2 Design of the Research
2．1 Research Questions
2．2 Research Subjects
2．3 Research Instruments
2．3．1 Questionnaire
2．3．2 Semi-structured Interview
2．4 Research Procedures
Chapter 3 Data Collection and Analysis
3．1 Analysis on the questions
3．1．1 Lexical Difficulties
3．1．2 Grammatical Difficulties
3．1．3 Background Knowledge Difficulties
3．1．4 Genres of Texts
3．1．5 Comparison of Lexical Difficulties，Grammatical Difficulties，Genre Difficulties and Background Knowledge Difficulties
3．1．6 Question Types Difficulties
3．1．7 Non-linguistic Reading Difficulties
3．1．8 Open Question
3．2 Analysis on the Semi-structure Interview
3．2．1 Students’ Viewpoints
3．2．2 Teacher’s Viewpoint
Chapter 4 Findings and Discussions
4．1 Polysemy
4．2 Obscure words
4．2．1 Guess the meaning by prefix
4．2．2．Guess the meaning by suffix
4．2．3 Guess the meaning from the context
4．3 Complex Long Sentences
4．3．1 Sentence Structure
4．3．2 Central Meaning of the Sentence
4．3．3 Verb Analysis
4．4 Science and Humanities Background Knowledge
4．5 Higher Levels of Comprehension
4．5．1 Topic Questions
4．5．2 Detailed Questions
4．5．3 Inference Questions
Conclusion
Bibliography
攻读学位期间的研究成果
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Acknowledgements
声明
