Students’ Needs on Maritime English Learning Material: A Case at Vocational High Schools

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200306.041How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Maritime English, needs analysis, English skills, learning material

Abstract

Maritime English is very important for maritime industry communication. However, it has some uniques that makes it difficult to understand so that the learning material should be designed well. This study investigates the need analysis of the students who are learning Maritime English. It was conducted using survey method where the data collected through questionnaires distributed to 110 students of Maritime Vocational High Schools Padang, Indonesia. The data were analyzed by using statistical analysis. As the result, it found some learning needs including 1) language skills 2) learning activities 3) learning material 4) setting of time on learning Maritime English 5) Topics 6) Linguistic Features. The results of this study provide recommendations for the development of English for Nautical Merchant Vessel learning materials.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Aminah
AU  - Refnaldi
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/11
TI  - Students’ Needs on Maritime English Learning Material: A Case at Vocational High Schools
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 242
EP  - 249
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200306.041
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200306.041
ID  - 2020
ER  -