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English as a lingua franca in aviation1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2009
Abstract
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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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.
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