The use of discourse analysis to enhance ESP teacher knowledge: an example using aviation English by Sullivan and Girginer (2002)
lack of specific content knowledge of many ESP teachers (Hutchinson and Waters', 1987)
Data collection and research design
Communicative Syllabus Design - Munby (1978)
Standard discourse transactions between pilots and air traffic controllers at Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul
research tools
interviews
questionnaires
tape recordings
a collection of unrehearsed and unplanned discourse
178 pages and 3968 lines
9 hours of recordings at the Ataturk International Airport Air Traffic Control center
observations
at Ataturk International Airport
25 Turkish Pilots and 25 air traffic controllers
10 Turkish pilots and 10 air traffic controllers
long process in getting permission to study the selected learners
The use of authentic data
Results
Airspeak - Robertson (1988)
278 pilots - 160 pilots for airlines in Turkey; 14 pilots work in a German factory, 146 of them are still undecided
Turkish air control setting
Approach control
center control
Area control
Tower Control
mostly brief requests, greetings, numbers, repetition (readback)
difference in the way of pronouncing numbers
Turkish was used for long statements