Getting English Instructor

The ICAO requirement is very clear on the education requirement to become an aircraft engineer. It is the ability to read and write English.

I can imagine the difficulty faced by the peoples involved in drafting the requirements, as it had to satisfy the 100 over countries. If I were a British, I may like to put the "O" as the minimum requirement, but that may be accepted by the Russian or even the France. So to be safe, no education requirements were put. However each of the country can insert his own requirements.

In our school for aircraft maintenance in Malaysia, English is a core subject. It becomes necessary as english is not the mother tongue and neither it is the language in the education system. So most of the students are not able to express themselves and the understanding of the technical instruction is limited.

The teaching of English is given in the first semester. The total of 400 hours is dedicated to the subject. This is enough to give the student the skill and the confidence to communicate. This is important as the new EASA system is done in the modular format, as the first module, mathematics is conducted in a short period of 3 weeks, then the students will sit for the first module.

.. to be continued..