ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Assessment, Testing and Applied Measurement
Testing emergency language skills in situational teaching: A quasi-experimental research
Provisionally accepted
- 1Yunnan vocational of transportation,Kunming, Kunming, China
- 2Southwest University, Chongqing, China
- 3The College of Arts and Sciences˖ Kunming, China, Kunming, China
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Despite the growing recognition of the need for specialized training in emergency language skills, educational frameworks in which disaster scenarios are integrated into language pedagogy remain underdeveloped. Therefore, this quasi-experimental study is designed to investigate the efficacy of situational teaching methods in enhancing learners' emergency language competencies. A quasi-experimental test is used to assess the participants' ability to process and communicate information related to critical disasters in a multilingual environment by measuring their pre-test and post-test learning outcomes. The results indicate a statistically significant improvement in the application of emergency language skills, emergency professional knowledge, and the ability to communicate emergency language following the scenario-based training. These findings highlight that the use of context-driven teaching methods, compared to traditional teaching methods, helps to compensate for the deficiencies existing in the current educational framework and effectively enhances learners' emergency language proficiency.
Keywords: competence, emergency language, Quasi-experiment, Situational teaching, test
Received: 26 Sep 2025; Accepted: 16 Dec 2025.
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* Correspondence: Jing Wang
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