ABSTRACT
Aviation safety has improved significantly since the industry’s birth over a centuryago. However, the issues of aviation safety performance are of great concern nowadays. International Air Transport Association (IATA) supports the use of English as the only working language in the sphere of international aviation operations. Thus, improving levels of the English language proficiency of international aviation staff is one of the main aviation community’s focuses. The paper examines the bilingual problem in aviation, with the focus on language teaching methods and techniques. We suggest that zigzag dialogue technique has a great potential for use in the field of Aviation Language training. The results, obtained by quantitative and qualitative research methods, demonstrate that 62.4% of trainees improve their listening comprehension and conversation skills, increase their English vocabulary that leads to the conclusion that the implementation of zigzag dialogue in classroom activities can improve English language proficiency level and provide adequate language learning support for pilots and air traffic controllers.
