| Acknowledgements | 第3-4页 |
| Abstract | 第4页 |
| List of tables and figures | 第5-9页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第9-13页 |
| 1．1 Statement of the Problem | 第9-11页 |
| 1．1．1 Vocational education in China and roles of English | 第9-11页 |
| 1．1．2 Research problem | 第11页 |
| 1．2 Setting of the Study | 第11-12页 |
| 1．2．1 Issues of English curriculum in vocational education | 第11-12页 |
| 1．2．2 English education at vocational colleges and ESP | 第12页 |
| 1．3 Organization of the Thesis | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter Two A Review of Literature | 第13-25页 |
| 2．1 Teaching English for specific purposes: a brief historical account | 第13-15页 |
| 2．1．1 Reasons for the emergence of ESP | 第13-14页 |
| 2．1．2 Key notions and types of ESP | 第14-15页 |
| 2．1．3 Recent developments in ESP | 第15页 |
| 2．2 Course design and needs analysis in ESP | 第15-22页 |
| 2．2．1 Approaches to ESP course design | 第16-18页 |
| 2．2．2 Needs analysis: aims, types of needs, analysis of needs | 第18-22页 |
| 2．2．3 English teaching in subject specialist courses: an SLA perspective | 第22页 |
| 2．3 English for e-commerce | 第22-25页 |
| 2．3．1 What is e-commerce? | 第22-25页 |
| 2．3．2 Use of English in e-commerce | 第25页 |
| Chapter Three A Study of English Course Design for e-commerce: Research Design and Methodology | 第25-30页 |
| 3．1 Research questions and procedures | 第25-27页 |
| 3．2 Participants | 第27-29页 |
| 3．2．1 Students | 第27-28页 |
| 3．2．2 Subject specialist teachers and English teachers | 第28-29页 |
| 3．2．3 Administrative staff | 第29页 |
| 3．3 Research instruments | 第29-30页 |
| 3．3．1 Questionnaire | 第29-30页 |
| 3．3．2 Interview | 第30页 |
| 3．3．3 Case studies | 第30页 |
| Chapter Four Findings and Discussion | 第30-41页 |
| 4．1 Results from the questionnaire surveys | 第30-36页 |
| 4．1．1 Results from the teachers | 第30-33页 |
| 4．1．2 Results from the current students | 第33-34页 |
| 4．1．3 Results from the graduates | 第34-36页 |
| 4．2 Results from interviews | 第36-39页 |
| 4．3 Results from case studies | 第39-40页 |
| 4．4 Summary of major findings and implications | 第40-41页 |
| Chapter Five English for e-Commerce at Vocational Colleges: a proposal for course design | 第41-47页 |
| 5．1 Content-based approach | 第41-43页 |
| 5．2 Use of authentic materials | 第43页 |
| 5．3 The competence of the English language teacher in CBI units | 第43-44页 |
| 5．4 A general framework of English for e-Commerce: A proposal | 第44-47页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusions | 第47-48页 |
| 6．1 Contributions of the study | 第47页 |
| 6．2 Further research | 第47-48页 |
| Bibliography | 第48-51页 |
| Appendices | 第51-66页 |
| Appendix 1: A questionnaire survey of vocational College graduates | 第51-54页 |
| Appendix 2: A questionnaire survey of Vocational College students | 第54-57页 |
| Appendix 3: A questionnaire survey of Vocational College teachers | 第57-60页 |
| Appendix 4: Original English level of the two classes | 第60-62页 |
| Appendix 5: Performance after one semester (5 months) | 第62-63页 |
| Appendix 6: An example of E-commerce website | 第63-66页 |
