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Thematic Progression Pattern in MA Theses by English Natives and Chinese English Major Postgraduates A Contrastive Study in Perspective of SFL By Shen Lu Under the Supervision of Zeng Xianmo College of International Studies Guizhou University May, 2009 Acknowledgements The completion of this thesis would not be possible without the help of many people. First of all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude and profound respect to Professor Zeng Xianmo, my supervisor, for his insightful academic guidance and his careful reading through my thesis drafts. I am also indebted to all the professors who have taught me over the past three years in the English Department, Guizhou University. I benefited a lot from their lectures on linguistics. Finally I owe profound and greatest gratitude to my family and this thesis is dedicated to them to my family members, whose love and care help me through the process of thesis writing. i Thematic Progression Pattern in MA Theses by English Natives and Chinese English Major Postgraduates A Contrastive Study in Perspective of SFL Speciality: Foreign linguistics and applied linguistics Orientation: Systemic Functional Linguist Supervisor: Prof. Zeng Xianmo M. A. Candidate: Shen Lu [Abstract] Since 1960s, as the famous advocator of the Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG), Halliday matured the theory gradually in his long-term study. SFG has increasingly been regarded as not only laying a solid foundation but also providing a forceful framework for text analysis, among which thematic structure, information structure and cohesion are three major approaches to realize the text meta-function. For more than five decades, Contrastive analysis has been used by many scholars and it greatly facilitates language teaching. Nowadays it is a tendency to do research on contrastive analysis of the textual level rather than the sentential level. Particularly researches on the contrastive analysis of Chinese and English natives’ texts have aroused m