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Acknowledgments
ChapterOneIntroduction
1.1 Orientation of the Study
1.2 The Object of the Study
1.3 Rationale of the Study
1.3.1 Requirements of English Reading Teaching in Senior Middle School
1.3.2 Problems in the Teaching of Reading in Senior Middle School
1.3.3 The Situation of the Yi Students' Reading Comprehension
1.4 Objectives of the Study
1.5 Outline of the Thesis
ChapterTwoLiteratureReview
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Defining Reading
2.3 Models of Reading: An Overview
2.3.1 The Bottom-up, the Top-down and the Interactive Model
2.3.2 Summary and Implications of the Reading Models
2.4 Overview of the Discourse Analysis Theory
2.6 Summary
ChapterThreeMethodology
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Methodology
3.2.1 Participant Factors
3.2.2 Instruments
3.3 Procedures
3.4 Description of the Data
3.5 The Coding Framework
3.6 Summary
ChapterFourDataAnalysisandDiscussion
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Data Analysis
4.2.1 Results of the Investigation on Reading Strategies
4.2.2 Results of the Pretest and Posttest
4.3 Culture, Lexical and Syntactic Patterns, and Discourse Structure
4.3.1 Culture and Vocabulary
4.3.2 Culture and Sentence Structure
4.3.3 Culture and Discourse Structure
4.4 The Role of Discourse Analysis Theories in Reading Comprehension
4.4.1 Contexts and Reading Comprehension
4.4.2 Cohesion and Reading Comprehension
4.4.3 Discourse Pattern and Reading Comprehension
4.5 Summary
ChapterFiveConclusion
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Major Findings of the Study
5.2.1 Findings on the Yi Students
5.2.2 Findings on the Pragmatic Approach
5.2.3 Findings on the Teaching of Reading
5.3 Implications of the Study
5.4 Limitations of the Study and Suggestions for Further Research
Bibliography
Appendix A Questionnaire
Appendix B Yi Students' Entrance Scores of Class 108(2002.9)
Appendix C Monthly Test of the Yi Students in Class 108(2004.10.28)
