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English as a lingua franca in aviation1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2009

Walter Seiler
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Abstract

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The International Civil Aviation Organization now requires all airline pilots to have at least a basic command of conversational English, but Walter Seiler is concerned that an over-emphasis on native-speaker varieties might lead to even more misunderstandings.

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Original Article
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English Today , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , June 2009 , pp. 43 - 48
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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1 1 I would like to express my gratitude to Jeff Siegel for reading an earlier version of this paper and for making valuable suggestions.