论文独创性声明本人声明所呈交的学位论文是我本人在导师指导下进行的研究工作及取得的研究成果。尽我所知,除了文中特别加以标注和致谢的地方外,论文中不包含其他人已经发表或撰写过的研究成果,也不包含为获得江苏科技大学或其它教育机构的学位或证书而使用过的材料。与我一同工作的同志对本研究所做的任何贡献均已在论文中作了明确的说明并表示谢意。学位论文作者签名:张广翠日期:2012-6-2学位论文使用授权声明江苏科技大学有权保存本人所送交的学位论文的复印件和电子文稿,可以将学位论文的全部或部分上网公布,有权向国家有关部门或机构送交并授权其保存、上网公布本学位论文的复印件或电子文稿。本人电子文稿的内容和纸质论文的内容一致。除在保密期内的保密论文外,允许论文被查阅和借阅。研究生签名:张广翠导师签名:周卫京日期:2012-6-2日期:2012-6-2The PERCEPTIONAND PRODUCTION OF ENGLISH APPROXIMANTS BY CHINESE EFL LEARNERS: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDYA ThesisSubmitted In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements forDegree of Master of ArtsByZHANG GuangcuiUnder the Supervision of Professor ZHOU WeijingSchool of Foreign LanguagesJiangsu University of Science and TechnologyApril, 2012IAcknowledgmentsUpon pletion of the thesis, I was deeply indebtedto a group of individuals, with the absence of whom this study would never have beencarried forward to the present shape. Iwould like to express my profound gratitude to all of and foremost, my sincerestheartfelt thanks go to my supervisor,Professor ZHOU Weijing, who introduced me to the field of ics and has shown me what an interesting and excitingfield it is. I have appreciated ProfessorZhou‘sclear teaching, committedmentoring, and willingness to give limitless feedback. Her confidence in me has fueled my confidence in myself. Her ingenious ideas, ments and continuous encouragementand tireless work to help me to improve during the whole process whenI was dragging through each period of the thesis writing have been absolutely vital to the pletion of this thesis and my graduate life. Great help has been offered to me by my supervisor in solving the methodological problems, and constructive suggestions for analyzing the data have also been provided. Her total devotion to academic research and her kindness in pushing me for ess will always pany me and encourage me to be better both for the development of my academic life and the rest of my lifetime. My specia