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Attitude plays an important role in language acquisition. The pilot’s ability to listen to, understand, comprehend, and respond to controller information in English is critical in performing flight missions smoothly and ensuring safety in aviation industry. The article highlights the necessity of student pilots’ attitudes in learning International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) English proficiency test and Aviation English (AE), and explores the underlying factors of attitudes in Chinese pilots preparing ICAO English proficiency test. The factors of influencing Chinese attitudes towards this test were grouped into three categories: how attitudes influences Chinese pilots’ test preparation process; how the interviewers’ attitudes in this exam especially interviewer’s attitudes in Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) influences their participating process; how their change of attitudes towards this test influences their quality of studying AE. Data were collected by conducting focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews with Chinese pilots guided by open-ended questionnaires. After that a thematic analysis was conducted which showed a variation in the results between the participants, which was allowed to find out the crucial role of attitude in Chinese pilots’ test performance and classified the variety of factors behind their attitudes.
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