航海英语视听说教材的研发

The Development of a Maritime English Visual-Audio-Lingual Course Book

当前,随着航海教育和培训要求的进一步提高,以及海上具体生产实际出现新的发展和变化,航海英语视听说教材的建设和开发显现出落后状态。教材内容陈旧呆板,与实际脱节,不仅难以体现远洋运输生产经营实际状况,而且违背了语言交际的原则,从内容、质量到形式都严重滞后。航海英语听说教学属于专门用途英语,其教学内容应突出表现在实践性和操作性,例如,各种仪器,设备、机械和原理等;各种操作,进出港、装卸货、航行与通信、解系缆、抛收锚等。很多场景和过程不是文字说明和教师解释可以完成的,因此更加需要有一套能够展现出真实工作场景的教材。采用多种媒体手段进行视听说教学具有巨大的、无可比拟并且不可替代的优势。高质量开发的音视频教材可以真实、清晰、鲜明、易懂地将工作场景、内容和过程呈现出来,使学生身临其境,印象深刻,不仅提高学生的注意力和学习兴趣,而且使其在具体的环境中学习真实的英语。

Presently, with the higher requirements of maritime education and training, progress technologies and changes of the practice at sea, the development of maritime visual-audio-lingual of new course books are lagging behind, in that the contents are outdated, dull and away from the actual practice.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 com- munication, 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 privi- lege, in that a highly qualified visual-audio-lingual course book will provide real, clear-cut and understand- able 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.