Abstract
Radiotelephony English is taught in college for the learners whose future professions are mainly pilots and air traffic controllers. The present study is to analyse the radiotelephony English test design in a university to see the extent of which it evaluates learners’ communicative competence in aviation scope. Theoretical frameworks on communicative competence, modern test theory and ICAO language proficiency requirements for the learners of radiotelephony communication are presented. The study reveals that learners’ communicative competence which includes both radiotelephony and everyday communication skills are important components in radiotelephony test design. The study points out that the application of modern test theory in designing radiotelephony test in college is vital in meeting the validity and reliability of the test and the students’ individual needs in English language learning for future career needs to be reflected in the test design.
Highlights
Civil aviation industry has been developing rapidly nationally and internationally, English language has become universal and played an important role in enhancing economic development and ensuring aviation safety
Data gathered from Q3 “the content relevance to aviation context” in the questionnaire and Q3 “the correlation of the test context to ICAO language requirements” in the interview demonstrate that the theory of language proficiency provides the basis for examining construct validity
Data gathered from questionnaires and interview indicates that the validity and reliability of the college radiotelephony English test have been proved to be acceptable
Summary
Civil aviation industry has been developing rapidly nationally and internationally, English language has become universal and played an important role in enhancing economic development and ensuring aviation safety. ICAO specifies English to be used as an international language in civil aviation context (ICAO DOC 9835) [1]. Learners’ English language proficiency should be well developed in college since it will affect their personal development and flight safety and communication is one human element that is receiving renewed attention[2] in protecting aviation safety. The radiotelephony English test in college is to identify learners’ language ability especially in the aviation context. The present study is to analyze the validity and reliability of the radiotelephony English test design in a university to see the extent of which it evaluates learners’ English language proficiency. Some factors in developing test papers needs to be taken into consideration, such as learners’ general language proficiency and test contents in terms of authentic materials
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