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Acknowledgements
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Overview
1.2 Need for the study
1.3 Significance of the study
1.4 Outline of the thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 The clarification of some concepts
2.1.1 The concept of narrative
2.1.2 The concept of“story”
2.2 Schemata theory
2.2.1 The definition of schema
2.2.2 The different types of schema
2.2.3 Narrative structure
2.2.4 Story structure
2.3 Some related empirical studies on discourse structure
2.3.1 Story grammar: A psycholinguistic approach
2.3.2 Labov's narrative model: A sociolinguistic approach
2.3.3 Studies on learners' narrative: A pedagogical perspective
2.4 Summary
Chapter Three Methodology
3.1 Research questions
3.2 Research subjects
3.3 Materials
3.4 Procedures
3.5 Transcription
3.6 Criteria for evaluating the proficiency of the speakers
3.7 Data analysis
3.7.1 Data preparation
3.7.2 Data analyzing procedures
3.8 Summary
Chapter Four Results and discussion
4.1 The macrostructure of L2 learners' oral description of pictures
4.2 Micro-analysis ora sample case: An illustration
4.3 The Structure map generated from the learners' oral production
4.3.1 The internal structure of Lead-in Description
4.3.2 The internal structure of Picture-related Description
4.3.3 The structural realization of Coda
4.4 Comparing the narrative structures across different levels of oral proficiency
4.4.1 Comparisons of the macrostructures across the two levels
4.4.2 Comparisons of the microstructure across the two levels
4.5 Summary
Chapter Five Conclusion
5.1 Summary of the major findings
5.2 Pedagogical implications
5.3 Theoretical implications
5.4 Limitations of the study
5.5 Suggestions recommended for future study
References
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