Chapter 1 Introduction I.I Background of the Study 1.2 Study Objectives 1.3 Overall Structure Chapter 2 Literature Review 2.1 Syntactic Alignment 2.2 Issues of Syntactic Alignment and L2 Acquisition of Relative Clauses 2.3 Proceduralization and Automatization in L2 Learning 2.4 Working Memory Chapter 3 Research Methodology 3.1 Research Questions 3.2 Participants 3.3 Target Structures 3.4 Research Design 3.5 Materials 3.6 Instruments 3.7 Treatment 3.8 Procedures 3.9 Data Coding and Analysis Chapter 4 Research Results 4.1 Alignment Effects in Immediate Production 4.2 Alignment Effects in Subsequent Comprehension 4.3 Alignment Effects in Subsequent Production 4.4 Summary of Research Results Chapter 5 Discussion 5.1 Syntactic Alignment in Immediate Production 5.2 Alignment Effects in L2 Comprehension Syntactic Alignment in L2 Learning： Taking English Relative Clauses Examples 5.3 Alignment Effects in L2 Production 5.4 Differences of Alignment Effects in L2 Comprehension and Production Chapter 6 Conclusion 6.1 Summary of the Major Findings 6.2 Research Implications 6.3 Limitations 6.4 Future Directions 6.5 Conclusion References Appendices Appendix 1 Language Background Questionnaire Appendix 2 C—Test Appendix 3 Reading Span Task Appendix 4 Materials for Grammaticality Judgment Task Appendix 5 Materials for Oral Sentence Completion Task Appendix 6 Materials for the Alignment Task Appendix 7 Materials for the Sentence Reading Task Appendix 8 Post-Experiment Questionnaire
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