Abstract
Aiming at the requirements of the maritime English correspondence, the language characteristics of the maritime English correspondence are analyzed in this article, and the factors influencing the written skills of the maritime English correspondence are discussed, and the principles of “7C” including the courtesy, the consideration, the completeness, the conciseness, the clarity, the concreteness, and the correctness should be utilized in the written of the maritime English correspondence, and the contents are listed in one complete maritime English correspondence, with their functions, that could help to enhance maritime staffs’ written capacity. ?5sl?p?er vocabulary learning. The findings of this study could perform as a roadmap in creating learning materials for mobile learning English language
Highlights
The shipping industry involves many countries and departments, with international characters, and the maritime English is the work language in the shipping industry, and employees associate each other by English, so the employees in the shipping industry must grasp corresponding language ability
The English ability includes spoken English, reading English, and written English, but spoken English and dialog are only applied in both sides’ meetings or voice communication, and in more instances, both sides could not meet or talk frequently, and those important things must be communicated or recorded by written form, and both parties engaging in the international shipping service usually live far apart from each other, and they could not meet in most instances, and employees always judge the others’ professional ability and service level, and a serious and decent English correspondence could leave good expression to the other, and it could pave the way for establishing the business relationship
Most businesses are large, and for the parties who never met, a worse correspondence from form to phrase would make the other to doubt the ability, so it is hard to image who would negotiate with the person who could not write good maritime English correspondence
Summary
The shipping industry involves many countries and departments, with international characters, and the maritime English is the work language in the shipping industry, and employees associate each other by English, so the employees in the shipping industry must grasp corresponding language ability. China is the big shipping country, with about four thousand maritime ships sailing in the world, and many employees engage in the shipping industry or the relative industry, so the maritime English correspondence writing is one important content in the maritime English course system, and the students in the maritime colleges must grasp the written requirements of the maritime English correspondence. Many ship-owners complained Chinese shipmen’s bad English ability, and many Chinese shipping enterprises could not effectively communicate with foreign shipping enterprises or produce many misunderstandings because of bad English ability, so the employees in the shipping industry should know the language characters and written requirements of the maritime English correspondence, and write the maritime correspondence completely and by standard form
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