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Enhancing Metalinguistic Awareness in Aviation Communication: A Path to Increased Safety

This presentation discusses the importance of metalinguistic awareness for pilots and air traffic controllers (ATCs), emphasizing the need for explicit instruction in grammatical structures to reduce miscommunication. It highlights the shortcomings of current English as a Foreign Language (EFL) pedagogy, particularly for learners whose first language differs significantly from English, such as Russian. The talk proposes a shift towards needs-based language competency training to improve operational proficiency and enhance safety in high-stakes communication settings, aiming to decrease the fatal miscommunication rates in aviation.

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Enhancing Metalinguistic Awareness in Aviation Communication: A Path to Increased Safety

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  1. PRESENTATION FSFI Conference 12th May 2011

  2. Awareness - rather than perfection – in oral production Grammar for reflection on communicative acts, rather than neurosis about grammatical nicety. Need for pilots/ATCs to be aware of the language they are using. Current EFL pedagogy does not favour explicit metalinguistic instruction

  3. Standard ESP pedagogy • needs-based language competency training with more learner-centred pedagogical approaches

  4. Refined Pedagogy Enhancing pilots' metalinguistic awareness and especially for pilots whose L1 differs from English as much as does Russian

  5. No understanding of relevant grammatical structures

  6. Miscommunication miscommunication …at least 11% of fatal airplane crashes worldwide in the period of 1982-1991 (Ritter, 1996, p. 7A)

  7. Code switching in a grammatical/syntax level

  8. General lack of English Language Operational Proficiency

  9. English Phrasal verb not understood “What does „Pull up, pull up‟ means?”

  10. Use of ambiguous expressions/Problem with nuance in English “landing priority,” , “fuel priority,” , “I think we need priority,”

  11. High Stakes Communication Training Requires more than just that task specific competency. Requires an enhanced metalinguistic awareness. Requires explicit emphasis on grammatical structures

  12. Metalinguistic Awareness Increases pilots awareness of potentiality for miscommunication Provides pilots with ability to interactively eliminate possible miscommunication

  13. Metalinguistic Awareness and Instruction Currently EFL pedagogy dominated by Implicit instructional types Explicit Instruction requiring rule explanation increases metalinguistic awareness Explicit instruction should not be decontextualized from Target Language Situation

  14. Metalinguistic Awareness and Pilots / ATCs Explicit Instruction requiring rule explanation increases metalinguistic awareness Increased metalinguistic awareness increases “noticing ability” noticing ability is one of the crucial mechanisms in the negotiation process. metalinguistic skills enable us to talk about language, analyze it, think about it, separate it from context, and judge it.

  15. The Future Will a new approach increase safety?

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