PECULIARITIES OF AVIATION ENGLISH TRAINING AT UNIVERSITY

Abstract

This article describes the peculiarities of teaching aviationEnglish for aviation specialists in a higher educational institution.The significance of the aviation English language in theprofessional activities of the aviation professionals is explained,the role and place of the discipline «Aviation English language»among other disciplines of specialists of «Aviation transport»training is determined. The purpose, tasks, contents of thediscipline «Aircraft English Language», the peculiarity of formingother communication competence of these specialists weredescribed. An analysis of the documents was carried out andit stated the necessity of learning aviation English language.Attention was paid to the recommendations of the InternationalCivil Aviation Organization (ICAO) which insist on the use ofcommunicative approach in the process of aviation Englishtraining to ensure the effective achievement of the goals ofthe discipline. It is proved that the communicative approach andcommunicative technologies contribute to the formation ofdifferent communicative competence of the graduates at ahigh level. A distinction was made between the terms: «radiocommunication phraseology», «aviation English language»and «general English language». The focus is on the fact thatthe full-fledged teaching of aviation English language mustinclude activities and exercises that ensure the formation of sixaspects of skills, formulated in the ICAO qualification scale andskill descriptors: pronunciation, structure, vocabulary, fluency,comprehension and interactions. A part of a practical class ofthe discipline «Aviation English Language» is demonstrated,which includes tasks for the formation of communicative skills.The article describes the stages of role-playing games, givesexamples of communicative tasks, which are aimed at formingrelevant skills and abilities: phonetic, grammatical and lexicalcompetence of the aviation English language.