Ideas and prospects for improving professional language training quality at a maritime university

Abstract

The relevance of the research is determined by the need for high-quality staffing for the maritime industry, further cooperation with employers, improving the quality of professional language training for cadets of a maritime university, continuous professional growth, testing and evaluation of professional knowledge.The research problem is as follows: how will new integrated models of teaching maritime cadets improve the quality of professional language training?The aim of the research is to substantiate the need to update ideas and determine the prospects for improving the quality of professional language training in a maritime university, which affect the formation of professional competence of a navigation engineer in the conditions of successful implementation of an electronic information and educational environment.The research methods used are analysis, synthesis, generalization. The Institute of Water Transport named after G.Ya. Sedov acted as an experimental base.The results of the research are the following: the ideas of improving the quality of language training, which are already being implemented by a maritime university have been described, namely, the use of information and communication technologies in blended learning and the problems of implemented ideas for improving the quality of language training identified; updated ideas and prospects for improving the quality of professional language training at a maritime university presented.Key conclusions: for high-quality staffing of a maritime industry it is necessary to update the ideas and prospects for improving the quality of language training of cadets of a maritime university in the context of the successful implementation of an electronic information and educational environment based on an integrated approach to the process of interaction between language and professional training using simulation training models.

Keywords

• maritime education
• language training for seafarers
• electronic information and educational environment
• simulation models of training
• integration
• communicative approach
• interdisciplinary communications