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PRESENTATIONPRESENTATIONFSFI ConferenceFSFI Conference
1212thth May 2011 May 2011
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
Standard ESP pedagogy
• needs-based language competency training with more learner-centred pedagogical approaches
Refined Pedagogy
Enhancing pilots' metalinguistic awareness and especially for pilots whose L1 differs from
English as much as does Russian
No understanding of relevant grammatical structures
miscommunication …at least 11% of fatal airplane crashes worldwide in the period of 1982-1991 (Ritter, 1996, p. 7A)
Miscommunication
Code switching in a grammatical/syntax level
Tenerife
Date: March 1977
Fatalities: 583
Injuries: 61
Cause: Miscommunication
General lack of English Language Operational Proficiency
Kazakhstan Airlines‟ Ilyushin 76
Date: December 1972
Fatalities: 351
Injuries: 0
Cause: Miscommunication
English Phrasal verb not understood
“What does „Pull up, pull up‟ means?”
Urumqi, China
Date: November 1993
Fatalities: 351
Injuries: 0
Cause: Lack of English
Use of ambiguous expressions/Problem with nuance in English
“landing priority,” , “fuel priority,” , “I think we need priority,”
AVIANCA Flight 52
Date: January 1990
Fatalities: 72
Injuries: multiple
Cause: Miscommunication
Requires more than just that task specific competency.
High Stakes Communication Training
Requires an enhanced metalinguistic awareness.
Requires explicit emphasis on grammatical structures
Metalinguistic Awareness
Increases pilots awareness of potentiality for miscommunication
Provides pilots with ability to interactively eliminate possible miscommunication
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
Metalinguistic Awareness and Pilots / ATCs
Explicit Instruction requiring rule explanation increases metalinguistic awareness
Increased metalinguistic awareness increases “noticing ability”
metalinguistic skills enable us to talk about language, analyze it, think about it, separate it from context, and judge it.
noticing ability is one of the crucial mechanisms in the negotiation process.
Will a new approach increase safety?
The Future