Chapter 1 Introduction …1
Chapter 2 Literature review …7
Chapter 3 Study 1: Junior high students' recognition of the appropriateness of function-chain structures …22
Chapter 4 Study 2: The recognition of the appropriateness of actual utterances by junior high students at two proficiency levels …37
Chapter 5 Study 3 (Analysis 1): The recognition of the appropriateness of actual utterances by junior high students, university students, and native speakers of English …46
Chapter 6 Study 3 (Analysis 2): The acquisition of English function-chains viewed qualitatively …64
Chapter 7 Conclusions and remaining problems …83
References …89
Appendices …94
Name index …133
Subject index …135