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Article
On the Development of a Maritime English Visual-Audio-Lingual Course Book
Author(s)
GAO Song
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5879/2016.04.003
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English Department, Qingdao Ocean Shipping Mariners College, Qingdao 266071, China
ABSTRACT
Presently, with the higher
requirements of maritime education and training, the development of maritime
visual-audio-lingual course books are lagging behind, in that the contents are
outdated, dull and away from the actual practice. They can by no means reflect
the production of ocean transportation and run counter to the principles of
language communication, resulting in a severe lap in the aspects of contents,
quality and formation. Maritime visual-audio-lingual teaching belongs to ESP
and its contents should give prominence to practice and operation, such as,
instruments, equipment, machinery and principles; operation, entering and
leaving ports, loading and discharging of cargo, navigation and communication,
berthing and unberting, heaving anchor, etc. Many scenes and processes are not
to be demonstrated by verbal means and normal methods of teaching. Therefore, a
set of course book that reflects the real operational situations is of great
need and one that adopts the multi-media means in visual-audio-lingual teaching is of
enormous and irreplaceable privilege, in that a highly qualified
visual-audio-lingual course book will provide real, clear-cut and
understandable working situations, so that students will be on-scene and
impressed. It will not only improve the students’ attention and learning
interest, but also help learn practical English in real environment.
KEYWORDS
Maritime English teaching, real working situations, teaching methodology, maritime English visual-audio-lingual course book.
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