声明
摘要
ABSTRACT
Contents
List of Tables
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Research Background
1.2 Research Purpose and Research Questions
1.3 Research Significance
1.4 The Structure of the Thesis
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Reading Processes
2.1.1 The definition of syntactic parsing
2.1.2 The contribution of syntactic parsing to reading
2.1.2 Syntactic parsing and grammar knowledge
2.2 Two Dimensions of Reading Ability
2.2.1 Reading comprehension
2.2.2 Reading rate
2.2.3 Balancing reading rate and reading comprehension
2.3 Theoretical Framework
2.3.1 Automaticity Theory
2.3.2 Attention Resource Emancipation
2.4 Previous Studies
2.4.1 L1 studies on syntactic parsing and reading rate
2.4.2 L2 studies on syntactic parsing and reading rate
Chapter 3 Methodology
3.1 Research Questions
3.2 Design of Measurements
3.2.1 The measurement of syntactic parsing ability
3.2.2 The measurement of reading rate and reading comprehension
3.3 Pilot Study
3.3.1 Procedures of the pilot study
3.3.2 Results of pilot Study
3.4 Data Collection
3.4.1 Participants
3.4.2Pretest
3.4.3 Experiment
3.4.4 Posttest
3.4.5 Semi-structured interview
3.5 Data analysis
Chapter 4 Results and Discussions
4.1 Results of the Pretest
4.1.1 Results of syntactic parsing ability pretest
4.1.2 Results of reading rate pretest
4.1.3 Correlation between syntactic parsing ability and reading rate in the pretest
4.2 Results of the Posttest
4.2.1 Results of syntactic parsing ability posttest
4.2.2 Results of reading rate posttest
4.2.3 Correlation between syntactic parsing ability and reading rate in the posttest
4.3 Results of the Semi-structured Interview
4.4 Discussion
4.4.1 Discussion on the quantitative results
4.4.2 Discussion on the qualitative results
Chapter 5 Conclusion
5.1 Major Findings
5.2 Contributions of the Current Study
5.3 Limitations
5.4 Implications and Directions for Future Research
References
Appendix
Acknowledgements