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ICAO Language Proficiency Rating Scale

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The ICAO Language Proficiency Rating Scale is a language proficiency rating scale used by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). It is applied to Aviation English.

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There are a total of 6 levels, numbered 1–6, with 1 being the lowest level and 6 the highest.[1]

They are named as 1-Pre-Elementary, 2-Elementary, 3-Pre-operational, 4-operational, 5-Extended and 6-Expert. Only levels 4 and above are considered sufficient for aviation communication.

Each level has descriptions of the areas of (i) Pronunciation Structure, (ii) structure, (iii) vocabulary, (iv) comprehensions (v) interactions.

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