Abstract
摘要
Contents
Tables and Charts
Chapter One Introduction
1．1 Background of the research
1．2 Significance and purpose of the study
1．3 Organization of the thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2．1 The role of preposition in second language acquisition
2．1．1 Definition of English preposition
2．1．2 Difficulty in learning English prepositions
2．1．3 Studies on prepositional errors
2．2 Incidental learning and the distinction of related concepts
2．2．1 Definition of incidental learning
2．2．2 Conceptual distinctions
2．3 Reading only and reading plus treatment
2．3．1 Information processing framework
2．3．2 Previous studies on reading only and reading plus treatment
2．4 Relevant theories
2．4．2 Krashen’s acquisition-learning hypothesis
2．5 Previous studies at home and abroad
2．5．1 Previous studies on incidental grammar learning abroad
2．5．2 Previous studies on incidental grammar learning at home
Chapter Three Research Design
3．1 Research questions
3．2 Participants
3．3 Procedures
3．4 Data collection
3．5 English reading materials
Chapter Four Results and Discussion
4．1 Results of pretest
4．2 Results of post-test
4．3 Results of paired sample tests
4．4 Results of each section in the pretest and post-test
4．5 Results of the interview
4．6 Discussion
Chapter Five Conclusion
5．1 Finings of the research
5．2 Implications for language teaching
5．3 Limitations of the study and suggestions for further study
Bibliography
Appendixes
Acknowledgements
声明
