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IMPLEMENTATION OF BALLAST WATER MANAGEMENT CONVENTION REQUIREMENTS IN MARITIME EDUCATION

Ballast Water Management Convention entered into force on the 8th of September 2017. Nevertheless, six years later, many problems are still waiting for their solution. Despite International Maritime Organization Guidelines, IMO HTW 7/12, Resolution MEPC.173 (5...

A FAIR CONCERN ABOUT ECDIS

Digital technology introduced a lot of benefits in the shipping industry but the relation between the equipment and the operator remains paramount and essential. Ship’s Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS), being recently a cornerstone for n...

COMPOSING A STANDARD FOR ELECTRONIC CHART DISPLAY AND INFORMATION SYSTEM TYPE SPECIFIC TRAINING

Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) training is accepted as extremely important for safety in modern navigation. At present, two types of training are required for deck officers. Operational use of ECDIS is mandatory training for deck offic...

DEVELOPING SECURITY – RELATED ACTIVITIES FOR MARITIME ENGLISH INSTRUCTION

The paper deals with developing teaching materials dedicated to the ISPS Code and issues related to handling stowaways on board ship. It points out the main considerations in designing materials for Maritime English and specifies the place of such topics in th...

DATA-DRIVEN LEARNING APPROACH TO MARITIME ENGLISH

In the current context of exponential growth of knowledge, it is necessary to acquire new skills to enhance our knowledge in accordance with the fluctuating needs on the labour market. These new skills, such as problem analysis, information management, informa...

HOW MUCH ENGLISH GRAMMAR IS NEEDED IN THE SHIP’S ENGINE ROOM

At the Faculty of Maritime Studies in Split, marine engineers have the opportunity to attend an ESP (English for Specific Purposes) course as part of the Special Education Program for Seafarers, which is a prerequisite for their career advancement. A series of...

ENGLISH MEDIUM INSTRUCTION (EMI) AND MARITIME ENGLISH COURSE: HIGHER EDUCATION INTERNATIONALIZATION IN INDONESIA

The popularity of English medium instruction (EMI) practice in Indonesia has experienced a substantial increase in recent years. This surge can be attributed to the growing emphasis on the internationalization of higher education, with the maritime education s...

DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS THROUGH THE “CASE STUDY” TEACHING METHOD IN MARITIME ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING (MELT)

The importance of getting maritime students to think for themselves is essential for becoming professional seafarers in the marine industry, as in the twenty-first century, critical thinking skills strongly reflect on the quality of performed professional duti...

MARITIME ENGLISH AT A HELLENIC MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY: THE ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES’ BRANCH MEETS THE INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION COMPETENCE THEORY

The two authors designed and piloted a novel Questionnaire for the measurement of intercultural awareness at the Deck department of a Hellenic Merchant Marine Academy, where the second author was employed to teach Maritime English. Such tool has not been propo...

USING REALISTIC MOVIES AS AN ATTRACTIVE STRATEGY FOR TEACHING MARITIME ENGLISH

This article explores effective techniques for teaching Maritime English using movies on marine topics. Several choices relate to the multimodality, authenticity of the material, and construction of language units. The challenges that might influence the benef...

MAXIMIZING STUDENTS’ LEARNING IN MARITIME ENGLISH ONLINE COURSE

The current appeal within MET to design effective online courses has arisen from the necessity to develop flexible learning environment to reinforce student background knowledge and widen student access to information. The paper presents ways for maximizing st...

THE MARITIME DOMAIN-SPECIFIC CORPUS: COMPILATION AND APPLICATIONS

This paper reports on the compilation of a multi-genre maritime domain-specific corpus and the research methods used to analyze it. The corpus was compiled using a combination of manual and automated methods, including web crawling and manual selection of rele...

THE IMPORTANCE AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE TEACHING OF MARITIME ENGLISH IN A MERCHANT MARITIME ACADEMY: INVESTIGATING THE OPINIONS AND POINTS OF PARTIES INVOLVED

It is widely known that the English language is the working language of shipping industry. In 2001, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) adopted the Standard Marine Communication Phrases (SMCP) and via one of its major Conventions, STCW 95, the teachi...