| DECLARATION | 第1-3页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第3-4页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第4-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| ABBREVIATIONS | 第6-7页 |
| LIST OF FIGURES | 第7-8页 |
| CONTENTS | 第8-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-17页 |
| ·Rationale of the present research | 第11-13页 |
| ·Main issues & research questions | 第13-14页 |
| ·Methodology & data collection | 第14-15页 |
| ·Overview of the present research | 第15-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-29页 |
| ·From the perspective of teaching methodology | 第17-21页 |
| ·Earlier classifications of teacher's questions | 第17-18页 |
| ·Cole and Chan's classification | 第18-21页 |
| ·From the perspective of SLA | 第21-23页 |
| ·Krashen's Input Hypothesis | 第21-22页 |
| ·Interaction Hypothesis | 第22-23页 |
| ·From the perspective of ESP | 第23-25页 |
| ·ESP studies in western countries | 第24页 |
| ·ESP studies in China | 第24-25页 |
| ·From the perspective of pragmatics | 第25-28页 |
| ·Pragmatic study of ELT teaching | 第26-27页 |
| ·Pragmatic study of ESP | 第27-28页 |
| ·Summary | 第28-29页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第29-45页 |
| ·Delimitation of teacher's questioning | 第29-33页 |
| ·Review of past definitions | 第29-31页 |
| ·An alternative definition of teacher's questioning | 第31-33页 |
| ·Strategies derived from the data colleted | 第33-36页 |
| ·Technical terms often included in the teacher's questioning | 第34页 |
| ·Chinese explanation often used in the teacher's questioning | 第34-35页 |
| ·ESP teachers often expanding their questioning | 第35-36页 |
| ·Summary of the strategies derived from the data collected | 第36页 |
| ·A brief introduction to AT | 第36-39页 |
| ·Three properties of language | 第37-38页 |
| ·Four angles of investigation | 第38-39页 |
| ·The conceptual framework of the present research | 第39-43页 |
| ·Adaptation to language structure | 第41-42页 |
| ·Adaptation to contextual correlates | 第42-43页 |
| ·Summary | 第43-45页 |
| Chapter Four Questioning as Adaptation to Language Structure | 第45-59页 |
| ·A tentative framework to the adaptability to language structure | 第45-47页 |
| ·Adaptability at lexical level | 第47-53页 |
| ·Adaptation to linguistic reality at lexical level | 第49-51页 |
| ·Analysis: Adaptation to the properties of ESP vocabulary | 第51-53页 |
| ·Adaptability at overarching level-----codeswitching | 第53-57页 |
| ·Codeswitching as a questioning strategy | 第53-55页 |
| ·Analysis: Codeswitching as realization of adaptation | 第55-57页 |
| ·Summary | 第57-59页 |
| Chapter Five Questioning as Adaptation to Contextual Correlates | 第59-69页 |
| ·A tentative framework of the adaptation to contextual correlates | 第59-61页 |
| ·Adaptation to teacher's questioning goals | 第61-64页 |
| ·Adaptation to the contextual factors relating to the students | 第64-68页 |
| ·Adaptation to the students' language proficiency | 第64-66页 |
| ·Adaptation to the students' responses | 第66-68页 |
| ·Summary | 第68-69页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第69-74页 |
| ·Major findings | 第69-71页 |
| ·Implications | 第71页 |
| ·Limitations | 第71-72页 |
| ·Suggestions for further studies | 第72-74页 |
| Bibliography | 第74-77页 |
