Audio description and plurilingual competence: new allies in language learning?

The CEFR (Council of Europe, 2001) and its companion volumes (Council of Europe, 2018, 2020) highlight the development of plurilingual and pluricultural competence (PPC) as one of the main objectives of language teaching and learning. Within this context, the plurilingual approach in education has...

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Main Authors: Anna Marzà, Gloria Torralba, Rocío Baños-Piñero
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 2022-12-01
Series:Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos
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Online Access:https://ojsspdc.ulpgc.es/ojs/index.php/LFE/article/view/1457
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author Anna Marzà
Gloria Torralba
Rocío Baños-Piñero
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description The CEFR (Council of Europe, 2001) and its companion volumes (Council of Europe, 2018, 2020) highlight the development of plurilingual and pluricultural competence (PPC) as one of the main objectives of language teaching and learning. Within this context, the plurilingual approach in education has placed translation in a prominent situation, with authors such as Cummins (2007) observing how it promotes not only the acquisition of foreign languages (FL) and the consolidation of L1s, but also biliteracy development and identity affirmation. Within translation, audiovisual translation (AVT) has proven to be particularly effective in language learning (cf. Lertola, 2019). The polysemiotic nature of audiovisual texts incorporates elements that require the activation of specific forms of mediation that cannot always be found in general translation. This article sets out to reflect on the influence that linguistic and semiotic transfer in AVT can exert on PPC (Author, 2021), drawing on the results of a quasi-experimental research undertaken within the PluriTAV project (cf. Martínez-Sierra, 2021). This specific study was aimed at assessing the development of PPC through audio description (AD) in BA English undergraduate students, who were organised into an experimental and a control group, with only the former using AD as a didactic tool. Although results do not reveal a statistically significant improvement in PPC acquisition, they enable the formulation of hypotheses to be tested in further research. In addition, the experimental group showed some progress in the development of specific plurilingual and pluricultural skills, which suggests that the use of AD in the FL classroom can improve learners’ plurilingual and pluricultural repertoire.
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spelling doaj.art-33709f8e65f94294bbc44418685346782022-12-22T04:41:53ZdeuUniversidad de Las Palmas de Gran CanariaRevista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos1133-11272340-85612022-12-01282Audio description and plurilingual competence: new allies in language learning?Anna MarzàGloria TorralbaRocío Baños-Piñero The CEFR (Council of Europe, 2001) and its companion volumes (Council of Europe, 2018, 2020) highlight the development of plurilingual and pluricultural competence (PPC) as one of the main objectives of language teaching and learning. Within this context, the plurilingual approach in education has placed translation in a prominent situation, with authors such as Cummins (2007) observing how it promotes not only the acquisition of foreign languages (FL) and the consolidation of L1s, but also biliteracy development and identity affirmation. Within translation, audiovisual translation (AVT) has proven to be particularly effective in language learning (cf. Lertola, 2019). The polysemiotic nature of audiovisual texts incorporates elements that require the activation of specific forms of mediation that cannot always be found in general translation. This article sets out to reflect on the influence that linguistic and semiotic transfer in AVT can exert on PPC (Author, 2021), drawing on the results of a quasi-experimental research undertaken within the PluriTAV project (cf. Martínez-Sierra, 2021). This specific study was aimed at assessing the development of PPC through audio description (AD) in BA English undergraduate students, who were organised into an experimental and a control group, with only the former using AD as a didactic tool. Although results do not reveal a statistically significant improvement in PPC acquisition, they enable the formulation of hypotheses to be tested in further research. In addition, the experimental group showed some progress in the development of specific plurilingual and pluricultural skills, which suggests that the use of AD in the FL classroom can improve learners’ plurilingual and pluricultural repertoire. https://ojsspdc.ulpgc.es/ojs/index.php/LFE/article/view/1457audiovisual translationaudio descriptionplurilingual and pluricultural competencePPClanguage learningPluriTAV
spellingShingle Anna Marzà
Gloria Torralba
Rocío Baños-Piñero
Audio description and plurilingual competence: new allies in language learning?
Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos
audiovisual translation
audio description
plurilingual and pluricultural competence
PPC
language learning
PluriTAV
title Audio description and plurilingual competence: new allies in language learning?
title_full Audio description and plurilingual competence: new allies in language learning?
title_fullStr Audio description and plurilingual competence: new allies in language learning?
title_full_unstemmed Audio description and plurilingual competence: new allies in language learning?
title_short Audio description and plurilingual competence: new allies in language learning?
title_sort audio description and plurilingual competence new allies in language learning
topic audiovisual translation
audio description
plurilingual and pluricultural competence
PPC
language learning
PluriTAV
url https://ojsspdc.ulpgc.es/ojs/index.php/LFE/article/view/1457
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