Language Barriers at the Airway: What the Specialized Helicopter School Aviators Need to Know on Board

Abstract

This study aims at exploring the needs of aviation pilots at the Specialized Helicopter School (SHS) - at Ain Arnat2 Setif- with respect to English language skills and specialist vocabulary. The research has been undertaken with the foremost purpose of designing an effective syllabus for pilots. Hence, a mixed method was adopted and utmost care was exercised during data collection. Nonetheless, there were some classified information to which we were granted no access for safety purposes. The main result gleaned is the insufficient level of command of English in radiotelephony, especially in the event of an emergency during flight.