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Course code 46923
Course of study MARITIME ENGLISH 3

General Course Description (the course concentrates on a single subject)

Study Nautical Studies and Maritime Transport Technology
programme
Level Bachelor x Master PhD
Year of study 2nd Semester 3rd
Knowledge for
Core x Elective STCW covered x
tasks
Length of course semester modular
x trimester basis
organised on a basis basis

Course Objectives
Course objectives meet the requirements of the extended and elevated level of IMO STCW
Convention 1995 and the requirements for obtaining a BSc degree in Maritime Transport –
Nautical Science and Safety of Navigation) and include the following:
- acquiring basic and specialized linguistic knowledge and English language skills
required for education and training for certification under the provisions of IMO
STCW Convention 1995, i.e.: Watch-keeping Officer on ships of 500 GT or more,
Chief Mate and Master of ships of 3000 GT or more
- acquiring communicative competence for effective use of English as a language of
international maritime communication for the purpose of ensuring safety of navigation
(using IMO SMCP 2001), protection of the marine environment and efficient business
operation of sea-going ships

Learning Outcomes
- ability of using English as a cognitive learning tool for up-dating knowledge in the
constantly changing world of maritime transport technologies, communication,
information science, automation, shipbuilding, maritime law, and shipping
- training of students for making oral and written presentations and reports on maritime
topics and issues

Course Outline & Topics

The course is based on the communicative approach to learning and teaching English as a
Foreign Language and English as a Second Language. It is also focuses on content-based
learning.
The course focuses on acquisition and development of:
- vocabulary/terminology skills (terms, polysemous words, multiple-word lexical units,
collocations, lexical sets) in the following registers of Maritime English: VHF
communications, marine meteorology, ship handling (acquired via listening, reading,
speaking and writing skills)
- application of IMO SMCP 2001 phrases as used particularly in VHF communications,
marine meteorology, ship handling (listening and speaking skills)
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- discourse and pragmatic elements of maritime texts and comunication (VHF exchanges,
turns, moves) such as speech acts and language functions (orders, requests, instructions,
advice, information, intention, warnings, prohibitions, etc.) in the above areas of
seamanship and maritime transport
- most frequent and typical grammatical structures and features restricted to maritime
discourse (written and spoken), accuracy in pronunciation in the above areas of maritime
transport;
- writing skills: completing forms and checklists, making statements

Generic Competences (Knowledge & Skills) to Be Acquired

Communicative competence in using English in the maritime transport; the four
communicative competence skills: listening, reading, speaking and writing skills
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Course-specific Competences (Knowledge & Skills) to Be Acquired
Maritime English as a communicative vehicle for ensuring safety at sea; maritime
vocabulary; mastering register and genre skills in ship handling and navigation, spoken
and written maritime communications

Methods of Instruction – Number of Required Classroom & Other Contact Hours

Lectures 15 Multimedia & the Internet
Practical work sessions 30 Consultation & tutorials 60
Independent study Projects or field trips
Seminars Practicum / practical work
Laboratory work Other

Notes

Estimated Student Workload Represented in ECTS

Course attendance 1 Seminar paper
Class participation Research
Coursework achievement tests Project
Experiment Continuous assessment 2
Written exam Presentation
Oral exam 1 Practical work

Notes

Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Modes of ECTS Learning Student Methods of Credits
instruction1 (student outcomes activity2 assessment3
workload)
Lectures & 1 Class 10
practical attendance,
work homework
sessions
Continuous 2 2 achievement Assessment criteria: 60
assessment tests marks for
demonstrated
1
E.g. lecture, seminar, research seminar, exercise course, practical, laboratory work, guided personal study,
tutorial, independent studies, internship, placement or ‘stage’, fieldwork, project work, etc.
2
E.g. attending lectures, performing specific assignments, practising technical or laboratory skills, writing
papers, independent and private study, reading books and papers, learning how to give constructive criticism of
the work of others, etc.
3
E.g. oral examination, written examination, oral presentation, test, paper / essay, portfolio, report about an
internship, report on fieldwork, (final) thesis / dissertation, etc.
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knowledge,
language, syntax,
vocabulary
Final exam 1 Oral 30
examination
Total 4 100

Language Medium of Instruction

English

Contact Hours & Allocation of Credits

ECTS (workload based) 4
Total weeks per semester, trimester & module 15
Contact hours Lectures 1
per week
4 Practical work sessions / seminars 2
Other
Total contact Lectures 15
hours
60 Practical work sessions / seminars 30
Other

Total time - field trips

Total hours of student workload required to complete a 45
defined unit of study.

Prerequisites for Course Registration

Course registration is allowed Successfully passing Maritime English 2
upon successful completion of:
Students are eligible to take the successfully completing assessment tests during the
exam upon: course

Main Reading
- Pritchard, B. (1995) Maritime English 1, Školska knjiga, Zagreb: Units: 18-23, 26-31,
33, 35-38
- Kluijven, P. van (2003) International Maritime English Programme. Alk & Heijnen,
Alkmaar – Section One (Communications) and Six (Documents)
- Pritchard, B. (1994) Ship’s Business in English. Pomorski fakultet, Rijeka: Units: 7,
10, 11, 15, 16, 24-25; vidi: www.pfri.hr/~bopri/shipbusiness.htm - (Ship's Business in
English)
- Standard Marine Communication Phrases (IMO SMCP 2001), IMO, London, 2001
(www.pfri.hr/links/SMCP)
- TOMEC - Test of Maritime English Competence: Versions A, B, C, D (Deck) -
http://www2.kaiyodai.ac.jp/~takagi/mei/temp/tomec.html
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Supplementary Reading
- Kluijven, P. van (2003) International Maritime English Programme. Alk & Heijnen,
Alkmaar (Sections 2-8)
- Maritime Communications, Maritime Education, Sweden (on CD-ROM) MarineSoft,
- Marine Language Training System (on CD-ROM), MarineSoft, Rostock, 2003 (za
vježbe)
- Standardni pomorsko-komunikacijski izrazi (SMCP 2001), Školska knjiga, Zagreb

Quality Assurance4
Quality assurance is based on the Faculty ISO 9001 system. Yearly analysis is produced based
on quantitative student examination data, and qualitative data based on student survey derived
at the end of each semester. Furthermore, specifically to this course, all data from exams,
seminars and projects are freely accessed on e-learning site by the students attending same
course.

(Degree of) compatibility & comparability of the course with those in European Higher
Education Area (EHEA) / Compatibility & comparability with allied institutions abroad
Wismar-Warnemuende (Njemačka), Rotterdam Maritime College, World Maritime University
(Malmo), MBA Management and Business in Shipping and Logistics (Copenhagen), National
College Ireland, Univeristy of Technology (Hamburg-Harburg); Gdyinia (Poljska), Admiral
Makarov Maritime Academy (Petrograd), Kobe (Japan), Southampton (UK)
Related courses

Head of Course
Title & name Prof. dr. sc. Boris Pritchard
Email bopri@pfri.hr www www.pfri.hr/~bopri
Institution Faculty of Maritime Studies,
Rijeka
Current academic Professor
position5
Most recent promotion February 2002
to the position date
Selected publications (books & papers) relevant for the delivery of the course
1. Books, chapters and articles in books:
1. Pritchard, B. (1999) Maritime English, Del Bianco Editore, Udine
2. Spinčić, A. & Pritchard, B. (1999) English Textbook for Marine Engineers 2, Visoka
pomorska škola u Rijeci
3. Cole, C., Pritchard, B., Trenkner, P. (2002). Maritime English back-up Materials for
(1) Environment Protection; (2) Port Operations and Costs; te (3) Shipping and
Costs, EU Project METNET, WP 7, Malmo
4
External & internal: e.g. feedback from students, staff, alumni, labour market …
5
E.g. Professor; Dr …., Associate Professor; Dr ….., Assistant Professor
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4. Pritchard, B. (2004) A Survey of Maritime English Materials – State of the Art in
Maritime English, IAMU, Tokyo
2. WWW page: www.pfri.hr/~bopri/
1. Boris Pritchard: Maritime English Resources Database; linked to the web-page of
IMLA-IMEC-a (International Maritime English Conference) at www.IMLA-
IMEC.com
2. Pritchard, B. (2002) Maritime Communications and IMO SMCP 2001, Pomorski
fakultet u Rijeci, www.pfri.hr/~bopri/
3. Articles in journals
1. Pritchard, B. (2001) “Leksičke baze podataka – izvori s interneta”, Strani jezici, 30,
br- 1-2, Zagreb: HFL i Školska knjiga: 89-96
2. Pritchard, B. (2001) 'Review: Susan Šarčević (ed). Multilingualism – the challenge of
enlargement'. Perspectives - Studies in Translatology, Vol 9: 4, Copenhagen:
Multilingual Matters Ltd.: 325-330
3. Pritchard, B. (2002) 'Višečlane leksičke jedince u općim i stručnim dvojezičnim
rječnicima', Filologija 38-39, HAZU, 169-190
4. Pritchard, B. (2003) 'Combining dictionary and corpus evidence - a lexical study of
the English adjective appropriate and its translation equivalents in Croatian', SRAZ
(2003)
5. Pritchard, B. (2003) Maritime English syllabus for the modern seafarer:
comprehensive or safety-related courses, WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs, 2003,
Vol. 2, No. 2, Malmö: 149-166
4. Articles in Conference Proceedings
1. Pritchard, B. (2002) On the Standards of Maritime English - Pedagogical implications.
In: Proceedings of the Seminar on Maritime English, Istanbul Technical University &
JICA: pp. 68-9
2. Cole, C., Pritchard, B., Trenkner, P. (2002) ‘Content-based Instruction – a challenge
for the learning and teaching of Maritime English’. In: Proceedings of WOME 3A,
Qingdao: METNET & Qingdao Maritime University, PR China, pp. 1-17
3. Pritchard, B. (2003) 'Multiword lexical units in maritime dictionaries', In:
Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Maritime Terminology', Instituto de
linguistica teorica e computacional, Lisabon (rad prihvaćen, u tisku)
4. Pritchard, B. (2003) On some aspects of evaluating Maritime English materials –
checklists. In: Proceedings of IMEC 15, IMLA & Makarov State Maritime Academy,
St.Petersburg: 139-152
5. Pritchard, B. (2004) 'A databank of maritime english resources – an invitation for
contributions'. In: Proceedings of IMEC 16, IMLA & MAAP, Manila, 166-182
5. Participation in international projects:
1. METNET (Maritime Education & Training Network), Malmö, 2000-2003
www.wmu.se/Projects
2. Design of maritime English back-up materials for use at MET institutions in
countries where English is not the official language (WP 7), In: METNET - Final
Report for Publication (prepared by Guenther Zade, WMU), European Commission –
5th RTD Framework Programme, Nov. 2003: www.wmu.se/Projects
3. GLOMET (IAMU & WMU), 2002-2004 (member of WG 3 - WP 'Maritime English':
JICA - Nippon Foundation, Tokyo
4. Member of WG – 'Maritime English' pri IAMU (International Association of Maritime
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Universities), Istanbul-Tokyo
5. PROFS ('The Professional Profile of a Maritime English Instructor') (2004-2006); prof.
Dr. P. Trenkner (Univ. of Wismar/Rostock), prof. Dr. C. Cole (World Maritime
University, Malmo), B. Pritchard (University of Rijeka); IAMU-JICA, Tokyo
6. Membership:
IMO IMLA: International Maritime Lecturers' Association (Malmo)

Other competences relevant for the delivery of the course