Thematic section 2024 is published

 

We are happy to announce that the thematic section "Audiovisual Translation as A Didactic Tool to Enhance Foreign Language Speaking Skills" of JAT for 2024 has been published. It was edited by Alicia Sánchez Requena from Sheffield Hallam University and Anca Daniela Frumuselu from Universitat de Lleida. You can read it in open access here: https://jatjournal.org/index.php/jat/issue/view/16. 

This current thematic section explores the growing field of didactic audiovisual translation (DAT) and its impact on foreign language (FL) learning, particularly in enhancing FL speaking skills. In the last twenty years, several European-funded projects and independent researchers, have delved into the use of audiovisual translation modes such as subtitling, voice-over, dubbing, and audio description in FL education. The present thematic section gathers six studies that focus on the use of DAT to improve speaking skills, an area often underexplored. The contributions of various scholars examine the effectiveness of different DAT modalities (dubbing, audio description, free commentary, voice-over and respeaking) in enhancing speaking skills, including pronunciation, intonation, and pragmatic training, in a variety of FL such as English, Spanish, and Italian.