Pre-operational Level 3 - IATA

1 ICAO Language proficiency Requirements To help you in your english language assessment and training, IATA offers the following courses: Aviation english Language Solution Assessment Developed in partnership with Berlitz Languages, Inc., this comprehensive assessment service lets you easily determine your ICAO Aviation english proficiency Level and select the right training program to bring you up to Level 4 proficiency Aviation english Language Solution - Training Developed in partnership with Berlitz Languages, Inc., this complete language training solution provides interactive instruction to ensure your ICAO-set Aviation english requirements and that you can communicate effectively on the job. Contact Us for information on how to organize this training for your company Pre-operational Level 3. Pronunciation Structure Vocabulary Fluency Pronunciation, stress, Accent at this Pre- Basic grammatical A weak command of Vocabulary range and Gaps in vocabulary Produces stretches of The slowness of speech rhythm and intonation operational Level 3 is so structures and sentence basic grammatical accuracy are often knowledge and/or language, but phrasing flow at this Level is such are influenced by the strong as to render patterns associated with structures at this Level sufficient to choice of wrong or non- and pausing are often that communication first language or comprehension by an predictable situations will limit available range communicate on existent words are inappropriate.

2 Lacks concision and regional variation and international community are not always well of expression or result common, concrete or apparent at this Level . Hesitations or slowness efficiency. Long silent frequently interfere with of aeronautical controlled. Errors in errors which could work-related topics, but This has a negative in language processing pauses frequently ease of understanding. radiotelephony users frequently interfere with lead to range is limited and the impact on fluency or may prevent effective interrupt the speech very difficult or meaning. misunderstandings. word choice often results in errors which communication. Fillers flow. Speakers at this impossible. It should be inappropriate. Is often could lead to are sometimes Level will fail to obtain noted that native or unable to paraphrase misunderstandings. The distracting.

3 The professional second language successfully when frequent inability to confidence of their speakers may be lacking vocabulary. paraphrase unknown interlocutors. assessed at this Level in words or in the process cases where a regional of clarification makes variety of the language accurate has not been sufficiently communication attenuated. impossible. Source: Manual on the Implementation of ICAO Language proficiency Requirements 2nd edition ICAO Language proficiency Requirements operational Level 4. Pronunciation Structure Vocabulary Fluency Pronunciation, stress, operational Level 4 Basic grammatical operational Level 4 Vocabulary range and An operational Level 4 Produces stretches of Speech rate at this Level rhythm and intonation speakers demonstrate a structures and sentence speakers have good accuracy are usually speaker will likely not language at an may be slowed by the are influenced by the marked accent, or patterns are used command of basic sufficient to have a well-developed appropriate tempo.

4 Requirements of first language or localized regional creatively and are grammatical structures. communicate effectively sensitivity to register There may be language processing, regional variation, but variety of english . usually well controlled. They do not merely on common, concrete (see glossary on page occasional loss of but remains fairly only sometimes Occasionally, a Errors may occur, have a memorized set and work related topics. (ix)). A speaker at this fluency on transition constant and does not interfere with ease of proficient listener may particularly in unusual of words or phrases on Can often paraphrase Level will usually be able from rehearsed or negatively affect the understanding. have to pay close or unexpected which they rely but have successfully when to manage formulaic speech to speaker's involvement attention to understand circumstances, but sufficient command of lacking vocabulary in communication on spontaneous in communication.

5 The or may have to clarify rarely interfere with basic grammar to create unusual or unexpected work-related topics, but interaction, but this speaker has the something from time to meaning. new meaning as circumstances. may sometimes need does not prevent possibility of speaking a time. operational Level appropriate. clarification. effective little faster than the 4 is certainly not a They demonstrate local When faced with a communication. Can ICAO. perfect Level of errors and infrequent communication make limited use of recommended rate of proficiency ; it is the global errors and breakdown, an discourse 100 words per minute if minimum Level of communication is operational Level 4 markers or connectors. the situation requires proficiency determined effective overall. Level 4 speaker can paraphrase Fillers are not (Annex 10, Volume II, to be safe for air traffic speakers will not usually and negotiate meaning distracting.)

6 B). control communications. attempt complex so that the message is While it is not an Expert structures, and when understood. The ability Level , it is important to they do, quite a lot of to paraphrase includes keep in mind that errors would be appropriate choices of pronunciation plays the expected resulting in simple vocabulary and critical role in aiding less effective considerate use of comprehension communication. speech rate and between two non-native pronunciation. speakers of english . Source: Manual on the Implementation of ICAO Language proficiency Requirements 2nd edition ICAO Language proficiency Requirements Extended Level 5. Pronunciation Structure Vocabulary Fluency Pronunciation, stress, Extended Level 5 Basic grammatical Extended Level 5 Vocabulary range and Extended Level 5 Able to speak at length Rate of speech and rhythm and intonation, speakers demonstrate a structures and sentence speakers demonstrate accuracy are sufficient speakers may display with relative ease on organization of though influenced by marked accent, or patterns are greater control of to communicate some sensitivity to familiar topics but may discourse at this Level the first language or localized regional consistently well complex grammatical effectively on common, register, with a lexical not vary speech flow as approach natural regional variation, rarely variety of english , but controlled.

7 Complex structures than do concrete and work- range which may not be a stylistic device. Can fluency. Under interfere with ease of one which rarely structures are operational Level 4 related topics. sufficient to make use of appropriate appropriate understanding. interferes with how attempted but with speakers and may Paraphrases communicate effectively discourse markers or circumstances, rates easily understood their errors which sometimes commit global errors consistently and in as broad a range of connectors. significantly higher than speech is. They are interferes with meaning. from time to time when successfully. topics as an Expert the ICAO recommended always clear and using complex Vocabulary is Level 6 speaker, but a rate of 100 words per understandable, structures. The critical sometimes idiomatic. speaker with Extended minute can be achieved although, only difference between the proficiency will have no without negatively occasionally, a Level 4 and Level 5 trouble paraphrasing affecting intelligibility.

8 Proficient listener may requirements concerns whenever necessary. have to pay close the use of basic attention. grammatical structures and sentence patterns compared to the use of complex structures (see the glossary of basic and complex structures in Appendix B, Part IV). At Level 5, the structure descriptors refer to consistent control of basic structure, with errors possibly occurring when complex structures and language are used. There is actually a big jump between Level 4 and Level 5. Level 5. speakers will have a more sophisticated use of english overall, but will exhibit some errors in their use of complex language structures, but not in their basic structure patterns. Source: Manual on the Implementation of ICAO Language proficiency Requirements 2nd edition ICAO Language proficiency Requirements Expert 6. Pronunciation Structure Vocabulary Fluency Pronunciation, stress, An Expert Level 6 Both basic and complex Expert Level 6 speakers Vocabulary range and Level 6 speakers Able to speak at length Fluency at this Level is rhythm and intonation, speaker may be a grammatical structures do not demonstrate accuracy are sufficient demonstrate a strong with a natural, effortless nativelike or near though possibly speaker of english as a and sentence patterns consistent global to communicate sensitivity to register.

9 Flow. Varies speech flow native-like. It is notably influenced by the first first language with a are consistently well structural or effectively on a wide Another marker of for stylistic effect, to characterized by a high language or regional widely understood controlled. grammatical errors but variety of familiar and strong proficiency emphasize a point. degree of flexibility in variation, almost never dialect or may be a very may exhibit some local unfamiliar topics. seems to be the Uses appropriate producing language and interfere with ease of proficient second- errors. Vocabulary is idiomatic, acquisition of, and discourse markers and in adapting the speech understanding. language speaker, nuanced and sensitive facility with, idiomatic connectors rate to the context of again with a widely to register. expressions and the spontaneously.

10 Communication and the used or understood ability to communicate purposes of the accent and/or dialect. nuanced ideas. As speaker. The speakers' accent or such, use of idioms may dialect may or may not be taken into identify them as second account in assessment language users, but the procedures designed to pronunciation patterns identify Level 6 users in or any difficulties or a non-radiotelephony mistakes almost never context. This is not interfere with the ease however intended to with which they are imply that idiomatic understood. Expert usages are a desirable speakers are always feature of aeronautical clear and radiotelephony understandable. communications. On the contrary, use of idioms is an obstacle to intelligibility and mutual understanding between non-expert users and should therefore be avoided by all users in this environment.