Your personalised, online solution to meeting ICAO English language proficiency requirements

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AcknowledgedasleadersintheirrespectivefieldsofAviationEnglishtrainingandSpeechRecognitiontechnology,MayflowerCollegeandCarnegieSpeechhavecombinedtheirexpertisetodeveloptheonlineassessmentandtrainingsolutionknownasClimbLevel4.

CL4isdesignedtoenablepilots/controllerstomeettheICAOlanguageproficiencyrequirements.ThroughusingthelatesttechniquesinSpeechRecognitiontechnologyitcoversall6ofthelanguageskillsrequiredtoachieveICAOlevel4andabove(pronunciation,vocabulary,structure(grammar),comprehension,fluencyandinteractions).

CL4ismostsuitableforpilots/controllerswhoselevelofEnglishispresentlyICAOlevel3or4andwhowishtoimprovetolevelICAO4or5.

AlloftheexercisesandreferencematerialinClimbLevel4areaviation-related.

Forallexercisesstudentscanchoosetoreceiveclues,checktheiranswersorseethecorrectanswers.

AccesstotheCL4programmeislimitedto100hours,spreadovereither3,6or9months.

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MayflowerCollege:

wasfoundedin1988andprovidesEnglishlanguagetrainingforinternationallearners.welcomestotheUKapproximately1500learnersperyearfrom50+countries.hasbeeninvolvedinAviationEnglishsince1992,providinggeneralandaviation-specificcoursestoairtrafficcontrollersandpilots(seewww.aviation-english.com).isthefounderoftheTestofEnglishforAviation(T.E.A.)(seewww.TEA-test.com).wasrepresentedontheICAOPRICESGLinguisticSubGroup.wasapresenterattheICAOworkshopsinMoscowinJune2006andMay2007.wasaspeakerandmoderatorattheICAORegionalWorkshopinParisinSeptember2006.wasaspeakeratICAOAviationLanguageSymposiuminMontrealinMay2007.

CarnegieSpeech:

CarnegieSpeechisthepremierdeveloperofsoftwareforassessingandteachingspokenlanguageskills.

Integratingworld-classtechnologyandlanguagetrainingexpertiseintoarobustyetintuitivesoftwareproducts,CarnegieSpeechsspoken-languagetrainingsoftwareenablespersonalized,effectiveandscalablespoken-Englishtrainingthatmaximizeslearningeffectivenesswhileminimizingtrainingtime.

WithglobalclienteleintheEducation,Aviation,Government,BPO,HealthCareandPublishingsectors,CarnegieSpeechprovidesspoken-languagetraininginover20-countries.

Industry Leaders3

http://www.aviation-english.comhttp://www.aviation-english.com

Beforethetrainingprogrammebeginsthestudentisrequiredtotaketheinitialassessment.Anotherversionofthistestisalsotakenattheendoftheprogrammeinordertomeasureoverallprogress.

Theassessmentlastsfor45minutesandcontains140questionscoveringlistening,grammarandvocabulary.Theresultispresentedasa%aswellasanoverallICAOgrade.

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Thefollowingresourcesareavailabletostudents:

Aviationwordbook2000ofthemostimportantwordsneededforICAOlanguageproficiency.Eachwordhasasentenceputtingitincontext.Studentscansearchforwordsbytopic,bygrammarpoint,andalphabetically.StudentscanlistentoallthewordsandsentencesinbothBritishandAmericanaccents.

RUNWAY The runway at Plymouth airport is only 2000 metres long.

Mypersonalaviationwordbookstudentscansavewords/sentencesintotheirpersonalwordbook.Theycaneditthesentences,forexampletranslatingthemintotheirownlanguage,and5differentexercise-typescanbecreatedautomaticallytohelpthestudentrememberthewords.

DictionarystudentscancheckthemeaningofwordsinthedictionaryandhearthepronunciationusingtheSpeakingPilotfeature.

Mypersonaldictionaryallwordsthatstudentscheckaresavedintotheirpersonaldictionary.Theycaneditthesentences,forexampletranslatingthemintotheirownlanguage,andexercisesarecreatedautomaticallytohelpthestudentrememberthewords.

AviationGrammarReferenceBookallofthe49grammarpointstaughtinthecurriculumareexplainedintheAviationGrammarBookusingonlyaviationlanguage.

SpeakingProfessorThistoolconvertsthewrittenwordintosound.Itisevenpossibletoselectamaleorfemalevoice,BritishorAmericanaccent.Thistoolisanexcellentwayforlearnerstoreadandlistensimultaneously.

PronunciationTrainingadynamictrainingprogramthatusesthelatestinspeechrecognitiontechnologytohelpstudentsimprovetheirpronunciation.Thepronunciationtrainingbeginswithanassessment.StudentscanchoosetoworkthroughthepronunciationtrainingcurriculumsystematicallyorusetheIntelligentTutortoprioritisetheareasonwhichthestudentshouldconcentrate.Soforexample,astudentmaynotneedverymuchpracticeinsayingthewvsounds,butalotofpracticeinsayingthejysounds.

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Thecurriculumisorganisedinto9ModulescomprisinglanguagethatEurocontrolidentifiedascriticalinpilot-controllercommunication(ICAOdocument9835ManualontheimplementationoftheICAOlanguageproficiencyrequirements,AppendixB-10):

1. Time,duration,schedulesandfuel2. Health3. People4. Weather5. Technology6. Aerodromes7. Cargo,materialsandfire8. Communication9. Navigation,movementandgeography

Eachofthesemodulesisdividedinto3units(approx.3-4hourseach).Eachunitcontains4parts:

a) Grammarexercisesb) Vocabularyexercisesc) Listeningexercisesd) Fluency/Interactionsexercises

ThemoduleshavebeendesignedtoreinforceeachoftheICAOskillstaught.Forexample,thelisteningcomprehensionexercisescontainwordstaughtinthevocabularysections;andtheemergenciesthatthestudentmustresolveinthefluencyandinteractionssectionsaresimilartothoseinthelisteningcomprehension.

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ThegrammarcontentofCL4isbasedonaneedsanalysisofthegrammaticalpointsrequiredtoreachICAOlevel4andabove.TheICAOdescriptorsforgrammarlevel4say:

Basic grammatical structures and sentence patterns are used creatively and are usually well controlled.

Atlevel5

Basic grammatical structures and sentence patterns are consistently well controlled. Complex structures are attempted but with errors which sometimes interfere with meaning.

Climblevel4givesstudentsextensivepracticeinboththebasicandmorecomplexgrammaticalstructuresoftheEnglishlanguage.Theauthorshaveselectedthe49mostimportantstructuresandtensesneededtoreachICAOlanguageproficiency.

Thegrammarexercisesareaccompaniedbyagrammarreferencebook.Theexercisesaredesignedtoimprovestudentsunderstandingoftheformandmeaningofarangeofstructuresandtenses;theycontainextensivepracticeinthesyntacticfeaturesofallthestructurestaught.

Thegrammarcurriculumistaughtusingtextbasedexercisesandspeechrecognitionbasedexercises.

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Thevocabularycurriculumhasbeendesignedtohelpstudentswithwordrecognitionandproduction,theuseofwordsincontextandthecorrectproductionofwords.

Thecurriculumisdesignedsothatthelexicalitemstaughtarerevisedseveraltimesovertoaidlanguageretention.Theexerciseshavebeendesignedtoappealtostudentswithavarietyoflearningstyles.

Languageispresentedaurally,intextandpictorialform.StudentsareabletosavewordstheywanttoreviseintheAviationWordBook.Theycantranslatethemintotheirfirstlanguage,andannotatetheexamplesentencesanddefinitions.

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Screenshotofexamplevocabularyexercise-thestudentisrequiredtoSPEAKthecorrectanswer

ICAOlevel4requiresstudentstocomprehendbothroutineandnon-routinesituations.ClimbLevel4providesextensivepracticeinlisteningtopilot-controllercommunications.Thesehavebeenwrittenbyaviationpersonnelwhoalsohaveateachingbackgroundandreflecttherealityofcontrollingseveralaircraftinthesameairspace.Thelisteningcomprehensiontextsreflectrealisticproblemsandemergencies.

ThecurriculumalsoincludesaviationnewsstoriesandFlightSchoolprogramswhichlookatbestpracticeinimprovingaviationsafety.

Thecomprehensioncurriculumincludes:

awidevarietyofinternationalaccents conceptcheckingexercises thetargetvocabularyandgrammartaughtinthecurriculum

Screenshotofexamplecomprehensionexercise

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ICAOlevel4andaboverequiresstudentstoproducestretchesoflanguageatanappropriatetempo,andtogiveimmediate,appropriateandinformativeresponsestomessages.Personnelarealsorequiredtodealwithmisunderstandingsbychecking,confirmingandclarifying.

ClimbLevel4hasavarietyofexercisetypestohelpstudentsimprovetheirfluencyandinteractions.Onemajorcauseofdisfluencyispausingtoaccessgrammarorvocabularyandsomanyofthefluencyexerciseswithineachmodulearebasedonthegrammarandvocabularythatistaughtinthatmodule.Theexercisesmovefromcontrolledproductiontofreerproduction.Forexample,students:

Readsentencesfluently(controlledproduction) Listentosentencesandthenrepeatthem

(interactivereadback) Describeimages(freeproduction)

Ineachoftheexercises,thestudentisgivenfeedbackabouttheirpausingandrateofspeech

Thefluencyandinteractionscurriculaalsocontainawidevarietyofinternationalaccents.

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Studentsareabletosee:

Dateandtimeofconnectionstotheprogramme Durationofeachsession Totaltimespentusingtheprogramme Resultsforeachexercises Resultsforeachunit Resultsforeachmodule Resultsforinitialandexitassessment

Thisinformationcanalsobemadeavailabletoacorporatecustomersmanagementthroughtheuseofanadministratorspassword(databothbyindividualstudentsand/orbygroupofstudents).

Allthisdatacanbeprintedand/orexportedincsvformat(toExcel,forexample).

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Screenshotofexamplepronunciationreport

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AttheendofthecourseeachstudentwillreceiveanelectroniccertificatewhichsummarisestheresultsandthetimespentusingClimbLevel4.

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Maurizio Costa

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Generallyspeaking,ifyourcomputerisrelativelynewthenyoushouldhavenoproblemsusingClimbLevel4.

Web browsers

MicrosoftInternetExplorer,versions6orhigherOpera,versions8orhigherMozillaFirefox2orhigher

Plug-ins

MacromediaFlashPlayer6orhigher(afreedownload)

Internet Connection(checkyourspeedatwww.speedtest.org)

Minimum:300kb/secondIdeal:1mb/secondSound

16bitSoundCardHeadsetwithmicrophone

Screen

Resolution:minimum1024x768Colours:minimum16bit-Density

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Programs/Prices

CL4 Shuttle: Thisprogramlastsfor5 hours(spreadovera1-weekperiod)andincludesoneinitialassessmentandthenaccesstothetrainingprogram.

CL4 Short-Haul: Thisprogramlastsfor100 hoursspreadovera3-monthperiod-thismeansanaveragecommitmentofabout8hoursperweek.CL4Short-Haulincludesthepersonaltrainingprogramandtwoassessments:oneatthebeginningandanothertocheckprogressattheend.

CL4 Long-Haul: Thisprogramlastsfor100 hoursspreadovera6-monthperiod-thismeansanaveragecommitmentofabout4hoursperweek.CL4Long-Haulincludesthepersonaltrainingprogramandtwoassessments:oneatthebeginningandanothertocheckprogressattheend.

CL4 Stopover: Thisprogramlastsfor100 hoursspreadovera9-monthperiod-thismeansanaveragecommitmentofabout4hoursperweek.CL4Long-Haulincludesthepersonaltrainingprogramandtwoassessments:oneatthebeginningandanothertocheckprogressattheend.

USDollars/perperson

No. of licenses bought1-24 25-49 50-99 100-249 250-499 500+

CL4Shuttle $55 $55 $55 $53 $50 $47CL4Short-Haul $435 $413 $392 $370 $348 $326CL4Long-Haul $600 $570 $540 $509 $480 $450CL4Stopover $710 $680 $650 $619 $590 $560

N.B.These prices are per person. The more licenses a customer buys the lower the unit cost.

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