We’re delighted to announce that the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, in partnership with Latitude, has won an Accelerating Business Collaboration award to research spoken English for successful flight training.

Led by Prof Tineke Brunfaut and Dr Olena Rossi and funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council, the research will focus on data generated from Latitude’s Checkpoint web-based assessment of English language proficiency for student selection and admission along with analysis of flight training courseware and interviews with flight instructors. Latitude will use the knowledge exchange to support the refinement of the speaking component of Checkpoint to bring enhanced measures of spoken language proficiency to our customers worldwide.

Accelerating Business Collaboration is an ESRC-funded initiative designed to enable postgraduate and early career researchers in the social sciences to successfully collaborate with non-Higher Education partners through research. We are pleased to build on our long-standing relationship with the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, and to drive forward with our mission to create and distribute the best possible aviation English products and services.