Innovative Assessment of Aviation English: Retrospective Verbal Reporting Integrated With Virtual Task Environments

• In Event: 72.050 - Poster Session 17
  In Poster Session: 72.050-5 - Designing Technologies to Support Learning

Abstract

In this paper, the researchers aim to examine verbal reports from the stimulated recall from 12 air traffic controllers in addressing two specific research questions: (a) What types of aviation English communication strategies are used in the virtual aviation English assessment, (b) How can the assessed strategies be interpreted in relation to task performance. To provide test takers authentic and interactive testing environments, a simulated virtual airbase was developed in a virtual environment. Findings from the stimulated recall data analysis reveal a variety of cognitive and metacognitive strategies that were adopted during the test task performance. Furthermore, this study could identify a very strong positive relationship between test takers’ use of cognitive / metacognitive strategies and their task accomplishment scores.

Authors

• Moonyoung Park, Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Byeong-Young Cho, University of Pittsburgh