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Acknowledgement
CHAPTER ONE: Introduction
1.1 Young adult (YA) and young adult literature (YAL)
1.2 Soter's “Young Adult Literature and the New literary Theories”
1.3 The author's hypothesis and practice
CHATPER TWO: Literature Review
2.1 The early available literary reading theories
2.2 Soter's new literary theories and YAL reading
2.3 Young adult novels
CHAPTER THREE: YAL Reading in China
3.1 Education is test-oriented
3.2 Prejudices hinder YAL into classroom
1 YAL doesn't suit Chinese education
2 Reading novels is a waste of time and it ignores students'duties.
3 Reading English original book is something mysterious and difficult.
4 YAL is something superficial.
3.3 Classic or adult literature instead of YAL for college English majors
CHAPTER FOUR: Experiment on YAL Teaching
4.1 The author's learning and teaching practice
4.1.1 The students' attitude towards literary reading
4.1.2 YAL book selection
4.1.3 YAL teaching methods
4.2 The students' responses
4.2.1 Classroom activities
4.2.2 The students' RESPONSES TO yal course
4.2.3 The display of students' exercise-papers
4.2.4 Questionnaire 2
4.2.5 Book-genres proportion and a book list(See appendix 6)
CHAPTER FIVE: Findings, suggestions and limitations
References
Appendix Ⅰ The two questionnaires
Appendix Ⅱ The students' earlier stage papers (characters maps)
AppendixⅢ The middle stage paper (rewrite “The Little Mermaid”)
AppendixⅣ The later stage papers (literary writing)
AppendixⅤ The students week-journals
AppendixⅥ A book list
