Title :
Assessing the language of International Civil Aviation: issues of validity and impact
Author_Institution :
Iowa State Univ., USA
fDate :
29 Sept.-1 Oct. 2004
Abstract :
This work will outline the challenges for: 1) test validity posed by the ICAO Scale and Holistic Descriptors and for 2) test impact due to conflicting institutional pressures such as airline safety, personnel recruitment and retention, and finances and the relationship between existing training programs and the as yet non-existent tests.
Keywords :
human resource management; linguistics; personnel; professional communication; safety; standards; testing; travel industry; English language proficiency; ICAO Scale and Holistic Descriptors; International Civil Aviation; airline safety; aviation communication; institutional pressures; language assessment; personnel recruitment; personnel retention; test impact; test validity; Air safety; Context; Cultural differences; Industrial training; Natural languages; Personnel; Psychology; Standards development; Testing; Time measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Professional Communication Conference, 2004. IPCC 2004. Proceedings. International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8467-9
DOI :
10.1109/IPCC.2004.1375305
