In Atlanta, where the world’s busiest airport fields thousands of flights each day, one researcher is working to improve communication and safety in global travel.

Eric Friginal, a professor of applied linguistics at Georgia State University, recently cowrote English in Global Aviation (Bloomsbury Press, 2019) with his former student Jennifer Roberts, now an aviation English specialist at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, and aviation expert Elizabeth Mathews.

Here, Friginal explains how language and communication affect flight safety worldwide:

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