作者：Liu Tingting
　　【Abstract】ESP （English for Specific Purposes） and EGP （English for General Purposes） teaching in maritime vocational colleges are new varieties of English teaching in this age. Hence，， this research aims to explore an appropriate design of the bridging course content for maritime majors at vocational college by carrying out an empirical experiment. To test the effectiveness of the bridging course design， the pre-experiment and the post-experiment were done on 49 first-year maritime majors in Jiangsu Maritime Institute by adopting the bridging course. The results of the experiment data revealed that before the experiment was conducted， there was not much difference in the English level between the experimental class and the control class. However， after the experiment， it was found that the bridging course had a positive influence on the English academic achievement of the experimental class， which was superior to that of the control class. Finally， designing a bridging course between College English and Maritime English can covered the following three perspectives： choosing language content， compiling suitable ESP materials and teaching the bridging course on the basis of Needs Analysis. All mentioned above by the author were effective in enhancing students’ awareness of ESP study and College English study efficiency but needed to be further explored.
　　【Key words】Cohesion; Course content; College English; Maritime English; Vocational college
　　This chapter will present two research questions and then introduce the questionnaire and the interview used as measurement of the teaching content of the bridging course. Reasons for the adoption of the questionnaire and the interview will be listed to justify the validity of the research. The basic information on the subjects in the present study including their educational background， present study situation and so on will be explained in detail. Specific information about the research procedure and data analysis procedure will also be described.
　　1. Research Objectivees
　　The study was conducted concerning the cohesion of teaching content in reading and writing between College English and Maritime English courses at the maritime vocational college. The teaching content was directed at arousing students’ interest in college English， making good preparations for the highly efficient teaching and study of Maritime English in order to help maritime majors pass National Qualifications Examination for Seafarers successfully.