This volume addresses the importance of training Aviation English trainers and assessors in accordance with the International Civil Aviation Organization's new language requirements. It explains how such a training system works in the aviation context so that the human factors of language could be viewed in synchrony with numerous other factors that impact flight safety. This is a compact and comprehensive text for those who are thinking of becoming Aviation English experts as well as for those who train them. The guidelines presented are ready to be applied at specially tailored courses all over the world, as well as being useful for self-study. Readers can use this concise publication without having to continually devise supplementary materials. This book supports Aviation English experts' professionalism that is directed at minimising potential misunderstandings of aeronautical communication.
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978-1-0364-5587-3 (9781036455873)
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Anna P. Borowska is Professor at the Faculty of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw, Poland. She is an Aviation English instructor at Lazarski Aviation Academy, Poland, and an accredited Aviation English assessor at Aviation English Private School, Belgium and France. She is the author of Avialinguistics: The Study of Language for Aviation Purposes. Her research focuses on linguistic problems of aeronautical communication as well as on the improvement of Aviation English training and assessment.
Olena Petrashchuk is Full Professor at the Faculty of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw, Poland. She is an Aviation English trainer and assessor as well as a trainers' trainer. She supervised a large-scale project that resulted in four registered patents (Ukraine) with the Test of English for Aviation Personnel among them. Her research interests include Aviation English professional discourse as well as training and testing.
