The First National Forum on Maritime Language and Application was held in SMU
The First National Forum on Maritime Language and Application was held in SMU
On Oct 10th, the First National Forum on Maritime Language andApplication was held in SMU. With the topic of “Disciplinary construction andeducation of maritime language and its application in the perspective of Chinaas a maritime power”. More than 50 experts attended the forum, including prof.Jin Yongxing, president of IMLA and party secretary of SMU; Ms. Tang Guomei,former head of international cooperation department of Ministry of Transport ofPRC., and scholars from other colleges of foreign languages with second-level-disciplinePhD programs.
From the forum, consensus has been reached in the following fiveaspects:
1. Strengthen confidence in the disciplinary development of maritimelanguage and its application;
2. Further specify the development objective of the discipline, i.e.develop liberal arts with the help of science and engineering majors in SMU;
3. Clarify education methods, i.e. combination of theory with practice,and cooperation of university and enterprise for talents with foreign language,foreign affairs, and expertise in certain field.
4. Confirm fields for the discipline, i.e. study of texts of maritimelaws; maritime conventions texts and translation; ship/shore or ship/shipverbal communicating system; psychology and verbal communication betweenseafarers; evaluation of verbal communication of seafarers; language teachingetc.
5. Improve education environment and teaching infrastructures such aspractice bases, translation and interpreting labs, maritime language processingcenters and other platforms.
