Chapter 1 introduction 1.1 Rationale of the Present Research 1.1.1 Role and Significance of Cultural Information in ECLDs in Foreign Culture Learning 1.1.2 Present Situation of the Study of CI in ECLDs 1.1.3 Cognitive Shift of Dictionary Research 1.1.4 Rise of Bilingual Corpora in the Compilation of ECLDs 1.2 Terminological Establishment 1.2.1 ECLD 1.2.2 CI 1.2.3 Presentation Model of CI 1.2.4 Chinese EFL Learners 1.3 Objectives of the Research 1.4 Methodology and Data of the Research 1.4.1 Methodology of the Research 1.4.2 Data of the Research 1.5 Organization of th Chapter 2 Literature Review of CI in ECLDs 2.1 Significance of CI in ECLDs 2.2 Content of CI in ECLDs 2.3 Presentation Ways of CI Chapter 3 Theoretical Consideration 3.1 Interaction of Semantics and Culture 3.1.1 Relationship of Language and Culture 3.1.2 Influence of Cultural Model on Semantics 3.1.3 Cultural Elements in Linguistic Units 3.2 CI in Foreign Language Teaching 3.3 CI in English-Chinese Learner's Dictionaries 3.4 Characteristics of CI in ECLDS 3.4.1 Abundance in knowledge 3.4.2 Systematicity 3.4.3 Country Specificity 3.4.4 Openness 3.5 Cultural Didactic Function of ECLDs 3.6 Summary Chapter 4 Survey of the Presentation of CI in ECLDs 4.1 Presentation of CI of Cultural Words 4.1.1 Presentation of CI of Culture-Specific Words in ECLDs 4.1.1.1 Coverage of Culture-Specific Words in ECLDs 4.1.1.2 Presentation Ways of CI of Culture-Specific Words 4.1.2 Presentation of CI of Culture-Associative Words 4.1.2.1 Coverage of Culture-Associative Words in ECLDs 4.1.2.2 Presentation Ways of CI of Culture-Associative Words 4.1.3. Presentation of CI of Cultural Idioms 4.1.3.1 Coverage of Cultural Idioms in ECLDs 4.1.3.2 Presentation Ways of CI of Cultural Idioms 4.2 Presentation of CI of Illustrative Examples 4.3 Presentation of CI at the Textual Level 4.4 Reflections on Survey Results Chapter 5 Presentation Principles of CI in ECLDs 5.1 Equivalence Principle 5.2 Communicative Principle 5.3 Cognitive Principle 5.3.1 Frame-Based Presentation ofCI 5.3.2 Sense order of Cultural Words From the Cognitive Perspective 5.4 Systematic Principle 5.5 Country-Specific Principle 5.6 Corpus-Supported Principle Chapter 6 Construction of a Presentation Model of CI 6.1 Overall Design of Presentation Model of CI 6.1.1 Content 6.1.2 Presentation Ways of CI 6.2 Presentation Model of CI of ECLDs 6.2.1 Presentation of CI in Macrostructure 6.2.2 Presentation of CI in the Microstructure Chapter 7 Conclusion 7.1 Major Findings of the Present Research 7.2 Major Contributions of the Present Research 7.3 Limitations of the Research and Suggestions for Future Research Appendices References