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Title DEVELOPING CRITERIA FOR A COURSE IN ENGLlSIl FOR AIRCRAFT. TECHNICIANS OF THE ETHIOPIAN AIR FORCE
Full text http://etd.aau.edu.et/dspace/handle/123456789/3935
Date 1993
Author(s) ABRAHAM, MENNA
Contributor(s) Mr. J.D. Atkins
Abstract The purpose of this study was to develop criteria for course design in English for aircraft technicians of Ethiopian Air Force. In the work of developing criteria, the existing syllabus and materials were analyzed to see whether they were relevant to the needs of the learners for using English in their academic studies and job performance. For this study, questionnaires were designed and distributed to 6 different groups: English teachers, academic and technical subject teachers, aircraft students, employers, aircraft maintenance shop supervisors, and junior aircraft technicians. Interviews were conducted with English teachers and aircraft students to crosscheck responses obtained through questionnaires. An analysis of maintenance manuals for aircraft engine and airframe, and of technical subject handouts was made to find out the most frequent communicative functions and notions students needed. An observation was also made on the maintenance work of the technicians to see what activities, which language skills, and communicative functions were actually used. The basic criteria drawn up from the findings are that the syllabus should be topic-based while including subsyllabus of functions and notions, skills, vocabulary and structure; the content should derive both from general and technical English; the materials should cover all the four language skills with emphasis placed in order of priority on reading, listening, speaking and wri t i nq skills, and the methodology should adopt a variety of more recent and suitable techniques for language learning, such as pair or group work problem-solving activities.
Language en
Type of publication Thesis
Repository Addis Ababa - University of Addis Ababa
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