英文是與國際接軌的重要工具，英文教育在培育優質海事專業人才方面，一直扮演非常重要的角色，臺灣與海洋有深切不可分離的關係，由於海洋對人類的重要性日益增加，以及其利用的日趨多元化，教育部於2007年正式研訂「海洋教育政策白皮書」，確立我國海洋教育未來發展的目標，期望能培育產業界所需優質人才，並積極投入海洋產業（教育部，2007）。學習者態度、策略與動機在英語學習成為中扮演重要的角色，目前在海事英文教育領域對學習者態度、策略與動機的個別研究雖然普遍，然而對此三者間的線性關係研究則是尚待努力。在英語學習過程中，徒有強烈的動機，沒有正確的學習方法或是策略，往往事倍功半。因此本研究運用線性結構關係模式探討各個變項之間的關係，本研究希望能提供海事學生英語學習時，學習者態度、策略與動機等英語學習行為重要研究資料，並作為設計海事英語教育課程之參考。

The English Education has currently become a prominent issue in Maritime education in Taiwan. To define the developmental goals for marine education policy in Taiwan, the Ministry of Education has drafted the White Paper on Marine Education Polices in 2007. This White Paper has highlighted the aspects of improvement of entry-level professionals in the marine industry. English is a key factor in improving the quality of high-level professionals for the marine industry. Therefore, the researches on marine students’ English learning behaviors and the related issues are needed. Although language education researchers have indicated the need to examine the language learners’ attitudes, strategies and motivations, the relationship between these three has only just begun to be addressed by researchers. Therefore, in order to investigate the influences of motivations on attitudes and strategies and the influences of attitudes and strategies during English learning process, a structural equation modeling approach was applied in this study. This study provided the results of the confirmatory factor analysis of motivation, attitude and strategy in learning English, and the opportunities to examine six hypotheses and 27 sub- hypotheses. The results supported the hypothesis model and the most of proposed paths were significant. Information of these issues should be helpful in understanding marine students’ English learning attitudes, strategies, and motivations.