PUBLICATIONS
Below is a list of my books and selected papers.
BOOKS
Cookson, S. (2024). Communicate in the Airport 2: Effective English for Ground Staff. Tokyo: Kindle Direct Publishing.
Cookson, S. (2022). Communicate in the Cabin 2: Effective English for Cabin Crew. Tokyo: Kindle Direct Publishing.
Cookson, S. (2022). Communicate in the Airport 1: Essential English for Ground Staff. Tokyo: Kindle Direct Publishing.
Cookson, S. (2021). Communicate in the Cabin 1: Essential English for Cabin Crew. Tokyo: Kindle Direct Publishing.
Cookson, S. (2021). The International Airline Reader. Tokyo: Kindle Direct Publishing.
Cookson, S. & Tajima, C. (2016). Communicate Abroad: Essential English for Travel and Study. Tokyo: Cengage Learning.
Cookson, S. & Kelly, M. (2013). Ready for Departure: An Introduction to the Pilot English Language Proficiency Test - Workbook. Tokyo: Seizando-Shoten Publishing Co. Ltd.
Cookson, S. & Kelly, M. (2012). Ready for Departure: An Introduction to the Pilot English Language Proficiency Test. Tokyo: Seizando-Shoten Publishing Co. Ltd.
BOOK CHAPTER
Cookson, S. (2021). English: International language of work and education. In J. C. Maher (Ed.) Language Communities in Japan (pp. 179-190). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
PAPERS
Cookson, S. (2024). Making sense of culture in the cockpit: The crash of Japan Airlines flight 1045. In: G. Praetorius, C. Sellberg & R. Patriarca (Eds.) Advances in Human Factors of Transportation (pp.32-42). USA: AHFE International. Free download at:
Cookson, S. (2023). CVR data unavailable: A study of 52 airline accidents & incidents 2014–2022. In: G. Praetorius, C. Sellberg & R. Patriarca (Eds.) Human Factors in Transportation (pp.549-558). USA: AHFE International. Free download at:
Cookson, S. (2022). Misrepresenting reality: Limitations of accident documentaries for airline pilot training. In: K. Plant & G. Praetorius (Eds.) Human Factors in Transportation (pp.622-631). USA: AHFE International. Free download at:
Cookson, S. (2021). Communication on the flight deck: What lessons can we learn from past accidents? In N. Stanton (Ed.) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation (pp. 603-611). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Cookson, S. (2020). Towards a glossary of aviation communication factors. In N. Stanton (Ed.) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation (pp. 539-546). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Cookson, S. (2019). Overwritten or unrecorded: A study of accidents & incidents in which CVR data were not available. In N. Stanton (Ed.) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation (pp. 702-714). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Cookson, S. (2019). Learning from the past: Airline accidents & the ICAO language proficiency program. Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, pp. 229-234.
Cookson, S. (2018). Intercultural communication on the flightdeck: A review of studies in aviation. In N. Stanton (Ed.) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation (pp. 78-90). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Cookson, S. (2016). Culture in the cockpit: Implications for CRM training. In S. Schatz & M. Hoffman (Eds.) Advances in Cross-Cultural Decision Making (pp. 119-132). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Cookson, S. (2016). An important failure: Lessons from Daedalus and Icarus. In N. Stanton, S. Landry, G. Di Bucchianico & A. Vallicelli (Eds.) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation (pp. 863-872). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Cookson, S. (2016). Culture in the cockpit: The impact of cultural factors on CRM training for airline flight crews. ICU Educational Studies, (58), pp. 77-86.
Cookson, S. (2015). “We need priority please” - Mitigated speech in the crash of Avianca flight 052. Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, pp. 578-583.
Cookson, S. (2011). Zagreb, Tenerife and Cove Neck: Revisiting the assumptions underlying ICAO’s language proficiency programme. Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, pp. 26-31.
Cookson, S. (2009). Zagreb and Tenerife: Airline accidents involving linguistic factors. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 32(3), 22.1–22.14. Free download at:
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