Dr hab. Anna Borowska, Associate Professor, Aviation English researcher
Head of ACRC
a.borowska@uw.edu.pl
Dr hab. Anna Borowska is an associate professor at the Institute of Specialised and Intercultural Communication, University of Warsaw. She received her Ph.D. in languages for specific purposes from University of Warsaw in 2008. She became Associate Professor in 2018. She was given a position of a seconded national expert at the European Commission in Luxembourg in the years 2013-2015
She is the author of the book Avialinguistics: The Study of Language for Aviation Purposes (2017) and the originator of a new branch of linguistics: avialinguistics that is to serve aviation purposes.
Currently, she is head of the Aviation Communication Research Centre. Her research focuses on linguistic problems of aviation verbal communication.
Professor Olena Petrashuk, Aviation English trainer
Prof. dr hab. Olena Petrashchuk has been with Aviation English since 2000, though her previous works were about special language testing and teaching. Today she is an author of nearly 100 publications most of which are dedicated to Aviation English studies. Hence, her major research interests comprise professional communication (in aviation), discourse analysis (radiotelephony communication), Aviation English test design and administration. She has four registered patents in Aviation English with the Test of English for Aviation Personnel (TEAP) among them.
In 2004-2009 she was a research supervisor and a manager of a large scale project aimed at the English language training and testing more than a thousand air traffic controllers of Ukraine to meet the new ICAO language requirements.
Prof. Olena Petrashchuk works for the University of Warsaw (Faculty of Applied Linguistics) and the National Aviation University (Aviation English Department of Air Navigation Institute, Kyiv).
Bożena Sławińska, Aviation English expert
Bożena Sławinska has 36 years of experience in working for PANSA as a general and Aviation English teacher, language course organizer and developer and 23 years of cooperation with EUROCONTROL in PELA and ELPAC.
She is an examiner for student air traffic controllers, air traffic controllers and pilots (ELPAC, RELTA), member of PRICE SG Linguistic sub-group task force preparing ICAO Language Proficiency Requirements: Rated Speech Samples CD-ROM and of the ICAEA Rated Speech Sample Training Aid panel as well as an advisor to PANSA and PCAO in LPRs implementation in Poland.
Dr Jacek Karpiński, Cabin crew language researcher
Jacek Karpiński, PhD, is an assistant professor of the Dutch language at the Erasmus Chair of Dutch Studies at the University of Wrocław and a cabin crew member of one of the Polish charter airlines. He makes use of his linguistic background and on-board work experience in his scholarly endeavours. Currently, his research focuses on the language used by cabin crew members (with a particular focus on English, Dutch, German and Polish), on-board communication and the importance of proper CRM as well as on specific communication between cabin crew members and passengers. He is also interested in the local variations of aviation language (mainly – aviation Dutch and aviation Polish) and the need to introduce aviation topics into foreign language teaching programmes.