Session 1: Have LPR tests been doing their job?

Session 2: What have the washback effects of tests been on training?

Session Agenda
2017
Monday, April 24th
8:30 AM

Opening Address

Dragan Bilac, Director General, Croatia Control

Hotel Neptun - Dubrovnik, Coatia

8:30 AM - 8:40 AM
8:40 AM

Event Welcome

Michael Kay, ICAEA
Terence Gerighty, ICAEA

Hotel Neptun - Dubrovnik, Coatia

8:40 AM - 8:45 AM
8:45 AM

Presentation 1: Implementation of ICAO Language Proficiency Requirements

Miguel Marin, Technical Officer Flight Operations, ICAO Montreal

Hotel Neptun - Dubrovnik, Coatia

8:45 AM - 8:55 AM
8:55 AM

Reviewing 10+ years of the ICAO LPRs

Neil Bullock, ICAEA
Michael Kay, ICAEA

Hotel Neptun - Dubrovnik, Coatia

8:55 AM - 9:45 AM
10:05 AM

Discussion Groups

ICAEA

Hotel Neptun - Dubrovnik, Coatia

10:05 AM - 10:35 AM
10:35 AM

What works and doesn't work in LPR testing: Is there light at the end of the tunnel?

Adrian Enright, ICAEA
Gareth Williams, Horizon Flight Academy, UAE

Hotel Neptun - Dubrovnik, Coatia

10:35 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM

Good at listening operationally or good at tests?

Simon Cook, LTAS, UK
Howard Alexander, LTAS, UK

Hotel Neptun - Dubrovnik, Coatia

10:50 AM - 11:05 AM
11:05 AM

Commercial aviation language testing: Barriers to success? A case study

Henry Emery, Latitude Aviation English Services, UK

Hotel Neptun - Dubrovnik, Coatia

11:05 AM - 11:20 AM
11:25 AM

Workshops A, B and C

ICAEA

Hotel Neptun - Dubrovnik, Coatia

11:25 AM - 2:30 PM
12:25 PM

Lunch

ICAEA

Hotel Neptun - Dubrovnik, Coatia

12:25 PM - 1:30 PM
2:30 PM

How does test design influence training? Washback effects of LPR tests

Michael Kay, President, ICAEA

Hotel Neptun - Dubrovnik, Coatia

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
2:45 PM

A Re-Evaluation of Washback for Learning and Testing Language in Aeronautical Communications

Neil Bullock, English Plus LTS, Switzerland

Hotel Neptun - Dubrovnik, Coatia

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM

One country- multiple training and testing pathways: the effects on test takers, testing systems and English language proficiency

Daniel Gorbold, ICAEA

Hotel Neptun - Dubrovnik, Coatia

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
3:20 PM

Workshops D, E and F

ICAEA

Hotel Neptun - Dubrovnik, Coatia

3:20 PM - 5:40 PM
5:40 PM

Q&A Panel - Day 1 Workshops

ICAEA

Hotel Neptun - Dubrovnik, Coatia

5:40 PM - 6:00 PM
6:00 PM

Drinks Reception

Croatia Control

Hotel Neptun - Dubrovnik, Coatia

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM