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Kim, Hyejeong – Language Testing, 2018
This paper aims to identify what aviation experts consider to be the key features of effective communication by examining in detail their commentary on a 17-minute segment of recorded radiotelephony discourse between a Russian pilot and a Korean air traffic controller. The segment was played to three practising pilots and three air traffic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Air Transportation, Traffic Safety, Cross Cultural Studies
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Kim, Hyejeong; Elder, Catherine – Language Testing, 2015
This paper explores the underlying construct of both the English proficiency test for pilot and air traffic controller radiotelephony communication developed and administered in Korea and the ICAO language proficiency testing policy on which the test in Korea is based. It does so by canvassing the opinions of Korean airline pilots and air traffic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational English (Second Language), Air Transportation, Traffic Safety
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Alderson, J. Charles – Language Testing, 2010
The Lancaster Language Testing Research Group was commissioned in 2006 by the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) to conduct a validation study of the development of a test called ELPAC (English Language Proficiency for Aeronautical Communication), intended to assess the language proficiency of air traffic…
Descriptors: Testing, Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Aviation Education