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Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Research Background
1.2 0bjective and Significance of the Present Study
1.3 Key Research Questions
1.4 Layout of the Thesis
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition in Second Language Acquisition
2.1.1 Definition of Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition
2.1.2 Controversies over Incidental and Intentional L2 Vocabulary Acquisition
2.1.3 Necessity for Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition in SLA
2.1.4 Implicit versus Explicit Learning
2.1.5 Conditions for Successful Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition
2.1.6 Empirical Studies on Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition both at home and abroad
2.2 Theoretic Foundations concerning Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition
2.2.1 Noticing and Attention
2.2.2 Motivation
2.2.3 Depth of Processing and Elaboration
2.3 Tasks and Second Language Acquisition
2.3.1 Definition of"Task"in Second Language Acquisition
2.3.2 Task and Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition
2.4 The Involvement Load Hypothesis
2.4.1 Construct of Task-induced Involvement
2.4.2 The Hypothesis and Its Assumptions
2.4.3 Support for the Involvement Load Hypothesis
Chapter 3 Research Methodology
3.1 Research Design
3.2 Participants
3.3 Instruments
3.3.1 Reading Material
3.3.2 Target Words
3.3.3 The Tasks
3.3.4 Vocabulary Tests
3.4 Procedures
3.4.1 The Pilot Study
3.4.2 The Main Study
3.5 Scoring and Data Analysis
Chapter 4 Results and Discussions
4.1 General Results
4.2 Results and Discussions of Key Research Question l
4.2.1 Results
4.2.2 Discussion
4.3 Results and Discussions of Key Research Question 2
4.3.1 Results
4.3.2 Discussion
4.4 Results and Discussions of Key Research Question 3
4.4.1 Results
4.4.2 Discussion
Chapter 5 Conclusion
5.1 Major Findings
5.2 Pedagogical Implications
5.3 Limitations and Suggestions for the Future Research
Acknowledgements
References
Appendixes
