| Abstract (Chinese) | 第1-6页 |
| Abstract (English) | 第6-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| Chapter 1 Conversation analysis as a framework for the research | 第15-31页 |
| ·Conversation as a social activity | 第15-24页 |
| ·Conversation | 第16-19页 |
| ·Conversational actions and speech acts | 第19-21页 |
| ·Sequence in conversation analysis | 第21-24页 |
| ·Turn-taking and adjacency pair | 第24-31页 |
| ·Turn-taking and turn-taking system | 第24-27页 |
| ·Adjacency pair | 第27-31页 |
| Chapter 2 Methodology | 第31-34页 |
| ·Data collection | 第31-32页 |
| ·Data transcription | 第32-34页 |
| Chapter 3 Teachers' questions in Chinese college English class | 第34-50页 |
| ·Teachers' orientation to involve students in interaction | 第34-37页 |
| ·Students' orientation to cooperative conversation | 第37-40页 |
| ·The challenging nature of the teachers' questions | 第40-50页 |
| Chapter 4 Discussion | 第50-58页 |
| ·Cultural explanation of the challenging nature of the teachers' questions | 第50-53页 |
| ·Harmony | 第51-52页 |
| ·Modesty | 第52-53页 |
| ·Authority | 第53页 |
| ·Further explanation to the classroom interaction | 第53-56页 |
| ·The communicative nature of teachers' questions | 第54-55页 |
| ·Multi-actions | 第55-56页 |
| ·Limitation of the research | 第56-58页 |
| Conclusion | 第58-60页 |
| Bibliography | 第60-62页 |