THE NEED ANALYSIS OF MARITIME ENGLISH WRITING MATERIAL THROUGH GENRE BASED APPROACH FOR MARITIME EDUCATION AND TRAINING STUDENTS IN INDONESIA

Principlythis research attempts to find out (1) the existing phenomena of teaching and learning Maritime English writing particularly the writing materials, writing teaching and learning strategy, writing assessment model, and troublesomes faced by students when writing and (2) the relevant Maritime English Writing materials through genre based approach in order to meet , Standard Training Certification for Watchkeepingfor . The research is done by explorative and survey research method.The clientals of the research is the Nautical students of Maritime Education and Training (MET) Medan Indonesia. The instruments for collecting data are questionnaire, documentary sheet, and in depth interview. The data are analysed by descriptive. The results of the research show that(1) the general existing phenomena of teaching and learning process of Maritime English writing is not optimal yet and is not relevant to the meet the the students here are two main dimensions of needs that is the typical teaching and learning process and varioustypes of genre along with theirtopics/themes of Maritime English writing materials.