The content of the CAA International EALT

The items and tasks of the CAAi EALT are set within operational contexts appropriate to the candidates.

Within these contexts, topics, themes, priority lexical domains and functional language proficiency requirements are all drawn from guidance provided in ICAO Doc. 9835 Manual on the Implementation of ICAO Language Proficiency Requirements 1 and from further consultation with aviation professionals and subject matter experts.

The EALT does not focus on discrete-point items, either in grammar vocabulary. 2

The EALT does not assess formulaic R/T phraseology, and neither does it assess operational skills or specific technical knowledge of operations. 3

1 c.f. ICAO Doc 9835 Appendix B. Full details of EALTS test content are available in EALTS Test Specification 2009

2 c.f. ICAO Cir 318-AN/180 Ch.2 Test Design and Construct 1.1.4

3 c.f. ICAO Cir 318-AN/180 Ch.1 Section 4 Aviation-Specific Language Testing Issues and Ch.2 Section 1 Test Design and Construct 1.2.1 &1.2.2