Dr Mercedes Herrera-Arnaiz is an experienced lecturer who has been involved in the study and teaching of maritime English for the last 27 years at the Bilbao Higher Technical School of Nautical Sciences and Marine Engineering, University of the Basque Country. Mercedes was first trained as Radio Officer at Glasgow College of Nautical Studies and obtained the Maritime Radiocommunication General Certificate. After a short experience on board merchant vessels, she studied language, linguistics and literature and earned her degree in English Philology. Some years later she was awarded her Doctorate in English Philology in recognition to her research in conversation analysis by the University of the Basque Country. She joined the Bilbao Higher Technical School of Nautical Sciences and Marine Engineering in 1986 as maritime English lecturer, being elected dean of this old institution in
1993, post she held for 7 years. Along her long lecturing career, Mercedes has taught maritime English to hundreds of prospective deck and engine
officers at operational and management level.
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